Angie Thomas 
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy 

Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore.Its not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are coollike getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so muchlike not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor.All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a seriesof shocking revelations and terrifying events launch Nic and two friends on a hunt for a powerful magic tool shes never heard of…tosave her father from imprisonment for a crime she refuses to believe he committed.