B.B. Alston is the author of the middle-grade Supernatural Investigations series, beginning with Amari and the Night Brothers. His fast-moving fantasy centers a Black girl navigating magic, class barriers, prejudice, and the search for her missing brother; the debut won the 2021 Barnes & Noble Children's & Young Adult Book Awards overall prize.
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1 edition: Print · 2021
Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
Print · 2021 · English
B.B. Alston writes middle-grade fantasy in the Supernatural Investigations series. His official biography identifies him as a number-one New York Times bestselling author published in more than 30 countries, and his current official bibliography presents Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game, and Amari and the Despicable Wonders.
The series begins with Amari Peters, a thirteen-year-old Black girl from a low-income community whose search for her missing brother brings her into the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Alston builds magical adventure around recognizable pressures of poverty, exclusion, profiling, and prejudice, while making Amari's persistence and developing sense of her own power the story's center.
Alston has spoken about the debut in several originating formats: a Barnes & Noble podcast conversation about writing for children and reaching reluctant readers, a launch-period livestream devoted to Amari and the Night Brothers, and a TeachingBooks recording about the book's creative backstory. Barnes & Noble named the novel the 2021 overall winner of its Children's & Young Adult Book Awards, and Alston's official biography reports a film adaptation in development at Universal.