Ronald L. Smith. Clarion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-544-44525-3
Smith debuts with a supernatural coming-of-age story set in a 1930s Alabama town. Twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a magical family, but he has no knack for folk magic himself. His father was "a powerful mojo man" who allegedly met with...
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Ronald L. Smith. Clarion, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-544-44528-4
Smith’s second novel (after Hoodoo) opens in 1864 England, where 13-year-old Jess and her mother have been running supernatural scams ever since her father’s mysterious death some years earlier. One séance goes badly astray when Jess returns from...
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Ronald L. Smith. Clarion, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-328-84161-2
In this quirky dark fantasy set in a small seaside town known as Gloom, a boy, desperate to help his mother pay the rent on the cottage they share, takes a job as a gentleman’s valet, only to discover that his frightening new master may be an...
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Ronald L. Smith. Clarion, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-328-84162-9
On the eve of Asha’s 13th birthday and Telling Day ceremony, which will reveal her life’s path, she wonders what mark the goddess Royal Lioness will reveal on her skin. Perhaps a wisdom knot like that adorning the neck of her caretaker, Suna? Or a...
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Ronald L. Smith. Clarion, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-331855-7
Having recently moved to the same military base, two Black former friends work together to unravel a top-secret mission that could spell doom for one of their parents. Thirteen-year-old military kid Ike Pressure prefers video games to playing sports,
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