Adia Kelbara and the High Queen's Curse
By (Author) Isi Hendrix
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Usborne Publishing Ltd
5th June 2025
5th June 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Supernatural and mythological creatures
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Paperback
368
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
270g
The second book in the fast-paced and witty Afrofantasy series following twelve-year-old Adia Kelbara, who must ally with a snarky goddess and a knife-wielding warrior to save her kingdom once more.Perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The School for Good and Evil!Adia may have defeated the power-hungry god Olark and saved Zaria, but now she must face something even more terrifying: her first semester as a student at the Academy of Shamans. But when a strange affliction starts making everyone except Adia, Thyme and Darian fall asleep and reanimated corpses start climbing out of the ground, Adia realises school is the least of her worries. Someone is draining energy from the living to resurrect corpses, creating cracks between the realms of the living and the dead. Adia has to push her powers to the limit and travel to the tomb of the ancient High Queen in search of answers. But rising corpses aren't the only thing in Adia's way - there's a new enemy out there, and if she can't defeat them, Zaria may soon become another realm of the dead.Praise for Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans:"Immersive, funny, clever...I couldn't put it down!" A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar series "This book is incredible!" B.B. Alston, author of Amari and the Night Brothers. "A spellbinding story of empowerment and liberation." Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of the School for Good and Evil series. "SPECTACULAR...I absolutely LOVED it." Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs.
Isi Hendrix is a Pitch Wars 2020 mentee and an Avengers of Colour 2020 mentee. She has degrees in anthropology and psychology from USC and has spent many years living in the Amazon and Gabonese rainforests working with shamanic tribes. She is a Black feminist, avid gardener, and, to the horror of her goat-meat-loving Nigerian mother, a vegan since kindergarten