Rise of the Jumbies
core novel 2017 The Jumbies
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.06 (1,063 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 272 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781616206659 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Having already faced down a malevolent jumbie once before, Corinne La Mer is drawn back into her island's world of folklore when neighboring children begin to vanish without explanation, and suspicion for the disappearances falls unfairly on her. Determined to clear her name and find the missing children, Corinne turns to friends Bouki, Dru, and Malik for help, and together they seek out Mama D'Leau, a powerful and famously deceptive sea-dwelling jumbie who may hold the answers they need. Mama D'Leau agrees to help, but only in exchange for a dangerous favor: traveling all the way to West Africa to retrieve a long-lost treasure on her behalf, leaving Corinne and her friends uncertain whether the fearsome jumbie can be trusted to keep her side of the bargain.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Jumbies
- Series: The Jumbies core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tracey Baptiste
Notes
- From the series record (The Jumbies): A middle-grade trilogy drawing on Caribbean (Trinidadian) folklore -- jumbies, douens, and other island spirit-creatures -- reworked as a Caribbean answer to European fairy tale conventions, per the author's own stated intent.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Jumbies: position 2 of 3: previous The Jumbies (2015) · next The Jumbie God's Revenge (2020)
Sources
- Official author websites
- Reader-rating platform
- https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/21822-tracey-baptiste-adventure-magic-caribbean-childrens/
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