Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson
Warner Books, March 2000
ISBN:0-446-67560-1 (paperback)
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is
celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight
Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding
words. But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite
costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father
commits an unforgivable crime.
Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of
New Half Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real,
and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Here Tan-Tan must
reach into the heart of myth--and become the Robber Queen herself.
For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life...and
set her free.
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