5/30/2023 0 Comments Tristan strong rick riordan![]() ![]() Here, the stories Tristan’s grandmother tells are solidly real: in the course of breathless chases, close escapes, and mounting stakes, he meets John Henry, Brer Fox, High John the Conqueror, and other figures from African and African American folklore. When Gum Baby, a figure from West African legend, tries to steal the journal, Tristan races to retrieve it, breaking a bottle on his grandmother’s bottle tree and falling through a flaming hole into a parallel world. Tristan’s survivor guilt means he hasn’t read the journal, and he is trying very hard to ignore the strange green glow coming from its cover. In his pocket he carries the journal of his best friend Eddie, killed in a bus accident. Gr 5-8–Tristan is reluctantly on his way to spend the summer with his grandparents on the family farm. ![]()
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