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Ibi Zoboi

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Ibi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and and her debut middle grade novel, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of Pride, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and editor of the anthology, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller, Punching the Air, is a YA novel in verse, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Her debut picture book, The People Remember, earned a Coretta Scott King Honor. Raised in New York City, Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children.

Ibi Zoboi Books

A Little Bit Super book cover

A Little Bit Super

Gary D. Schmidt
Nigeria Jones book cover

Nigeria Jones

Ibi Zoboi
Star Child book cover

Star Child

Ibi Zoboi
Punching the Air book cover

Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich book cover

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

Ibi Zoboi
Black Enough book cover

Black Enough

Ibi Zoboi
Pride book cover

Pride

Ibi Zoboi
Meet Cute book cover

Meet Cute

Jennifer L. Armentrout
American Street book cover

American Street

Ibi Zoboi
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond book cover

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond

Bill Campbell
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