Best YA Fantasy Books With Black Main Characters
Black Girl Magic Comes to Life in These 15 Mystical YA Books
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In The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark, it's the year 1884 in an alternate-universe New Orleans, and Jacquelin "Creeper" is done living on the streets. To secure passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber, the scrappy teen plans to utilise her two biggest secrets: the divine powers given to her by Oya, the African orisha of the winds and storms, and the Black God's Drums, a mysterious weapon created by a kidnapped Haitian scientist.