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a laugh-out-loud YA romance

by Kwame Mbalia and Erin Entrada Kelly

ON AGAIN, AWKWARD AGAIN!

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THE KWAME MBALIA

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A new heartwarming picture book

set in the world of Captain America

A HERO LOOKS LIKE YOU!

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TRISTAN STRONG

Graphic Novel is here!

Available Now!

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Celebrate the joys of Black

boyhood with stories from

seventeen bestselling, critically

acclaimed Black authors

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Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek

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a new fantasy adventure

set in the magical streets of Chicago

JAX FREEMAN AND THE PHANTOM SHRIEK!

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Hello!

Kwame is a husband, father, writer, a New York Times bestselling author, a publisher, and a former pharmaceutical metrologist (in that order). He is the author of the bestselling Tristan Strong series, the first of which was awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Kwame is the co-author of Last Gate of The Emperor with Prince Joel Makonnen, from Scholastic Books, and the editor of the #1 New York Times bestselling anthology Black Boy Joy, published by Delacorte Press. 

And if you weren’t tired of listening to Kwame’s bio, there’s more, because Kwame is also a Publisher with his imprint Freedom Fire, a collaboration with Disney Books! His newest middle grade adventure, Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek, is a Freedom Fire title and launches October 2024. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheez-Its.

Upcoming Events

The JAX FREEMAN AND THE PHANTOM SHRIEK tour is here!

Oct 8 @ 6pm ET

Brave + Kind Bookstore, Atlanta, GA

Oct 9 @ 6:30pm CT

Kindred Stories, Houston, TX

Oct 11 @ 6pm ET

Quail Ridge, Raleigh, NC

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