[]
Black Boy Joy
Play sample
  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593379950
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Black Boy Joy

17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

Formats & editions
EBook
3 Aug 2021
Audiobook
3 Aug 2021
Paperback
5 Sept 2023
Hardback
19 Oct 2021
Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FIVE STARRED REVIEWS

Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors—including Jason Reynolds, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Mbalia.

★ "Pick up Black Boy Joy for a heavy dose of happiness." —Booklist, starred review

Black boy joy is…
 
Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit.
Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race.
Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times.
Flying on your skateboard like nobody’s watching.
 
And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.

Contributors include: B. B. Alston, Dean Atta, P. Djèlí Clark, Jay Coles, Jerry Craft, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, DaVaun Sanders, and Julian Winters
  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593379950
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Kwame Mbalia

Kwame Mbalia is a husband, father, and New York Times bestselling author of the Tristan Strong series, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award for Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky. Kwame also cowrote Last Gate of the Emperor with Prince Joel Makonnen and edited the instant New York Times best seller Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood. Kwame lives with his wife and children near Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is currently working on several projects—including a new middle-grade series—and cultivating cutting edge dad jokes.
KM

Also by Kwame Mbalia

The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities
Jax Freeman and the Graveyard Forest
Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, The Graphic Novel
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Keeps Punching-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 3
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Destroys the World-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1
See all