Smith, Ronald L. (Ronald Lenard), 1959- author.
Boston New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
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Notes:

• In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
• Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, 2016

Subjects:

• Magic — Juvenile fiction.
• Families — Juvenile fiction.
• Country life — Juvenile fiction.
• Demonology — Juvenile fiction.
• Alabama — History — 20th century — Juvenile fiction.
• Magic — Fiction.
• African Americans — Fiction.
• Family life — Alabama — Fiction.
• Country life — Alabama — Fiction.
• Demonology — Fiction.
• Alabama — History — 20th century — Fiction.

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