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Amari and the night6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Amari, a Black girl from the local housing projects and the only scholarship student at school, is an outcast and endures bullying from her peers. The novel opens on first-person protagonist Amari Peters, a 12-year-old student at Jefferson Academy. This guide references the 2021 Balzer + Bray first paperback edition.Ĭontent Warning: This book contains depictions of racism and racially motivated harassment. ![]() The novel explores themes of family, identity, and the fight against prejudice. Moreau may be the only key to finding Quinton, and Amari must stop Moreau’s destruction. Meanwhile, a powerful magician named Moreau lays siege to the supernatural world with human-monster hybrids in pursuit of a powerful dark object. Hoping to find clues about her brother’s disappearance, Amari accepts the nomination-but when she is identified as a magician, an illegal designation, she’s as much of an outcast in the supernatural world as she was in her ordinary one. Amari discovers that a supernatural world resides alongside her own when she learns that her missing brother, Quinton, nominated her for a summer career tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Twelve-year-old Amari Peters, a Black girl from the low-income housing projects, struggles to fit in as the only scholarship student at the prestigious Jefferson Academy, where her peers bully her because of her race and her social class. ![]()
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