[CASL-L] Tracey Baptiste and David Anthony Durham in conversation at The Curious Cat Bookshop

[Melissa Thom]

*Stacy Whitman, the owner of The Curious Cat Bookshop, has some great
events coming up next week I wanted to share!*

*--Melissa :)*

The Curious Cat Bookshop is proud to present Tracey Baptiste, the
best-selling author of the Jumbies series, here to discuss her new
Afro-Caribbean-inspired story about three cousins who discover they are
mokos--protector spirits--during carnival season in Brooklyn! In *Moko
Magic: Carnival Chaos, *12-year-old Misty and her mother have just moved
from Trinidad to Brooklyn, New York, in time for the annual carnival
celebrations over Labor Day weekend. Misty has plenty to deal with getting
used to living with her cousins Aiden and Brooke in her new surroundings.
On top of that, her mom is too busy trying to find a job, and her aunts and
uncles are too preoccupied with carnival preparations to pay any attention
to her. Then really strange things begin to happen.

Tracey will be in conversation with fantasy author David Anthony Durham,
author of *The Shadow Prince*, whose stories have appeared in four of
George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards novels. David has also worked as a
consultant on several shows in development at HBO.

Tracey Baptiste (she/her) was born in Trinidad and lived there for fifteen
years before moving to Brooklyn, New York. She is the New York Times
best-selling author of *Minecraft: The Crash*, as well as the creepy
Caribbean-inspired series the Jumbies. Tracey has also written the
contemporary YA novel *Angel's Grace* and many nonfiction books,
including *African
Icons*, which was named a Best Book of 2021 by the New York Public Library,
*Kirkus*, and *School Library Journal*. Tracey, a former elementary school
teacher, is on the faculty at Lesley University's Creative Writing MFA
program. She lives in New Jersey. Visit her online at TraceyBaptiste.com.
<http://traceybaptiste.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0XzYUOYJr-2hcYQjiUB0ltdQxvH3pHk4om-kLs_yFqD9dUmtwU4gdAuNQ_aem_Jacv-qJ6RmfNaE66pWJ0dQ>

RSVP/more information at
https://curiouscatbookshop.com/event/2024-09-24/tracey-baptiste-conversation-david-anthony-durham
.

[image: Tracey Baptiste.png]

*And also Saturday, Sept. 28th is the Windham Harvest Festival.*

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Melissa Thom
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