Kwame Mbalia is the New York Times best-selling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award.
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Kwame lives with his wife and children near Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is currently working several projects, including a new middle grade series.
Kwame also co-wrote Last Gate of the Emperor with Prince Joel Makonnen and edited the instant New York Times best-seller Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood .
The second Book in the trilogy is Tristan Strong Destroys the World , and Tristan Strong Keeps Punching is the third.
The Book was also named to best-of-the-year lists compiled by Publishers Weekly , the Chicago Public Library, and the New York Times.
Kwame Mbalia is the New York Times best-selling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award
