First Day Around the World Crime a harrowing novel set in

a harrowing novel set in an alternate United States—a world of injustice and bondage in which a young Black woman becomes the concubine of a powerful white government official and must face the dangerous consequences

Lewis was enslaved fifty years after the transoceanic slave trade was outlawed

Provocative and chilling

With a keen eye

but members of these communities collaborated with activists to transform food into a tool of resistance

First Day Around the World Crime a harrowing novel set inFrom award winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londoo, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to school looks like for children in countries around the world! How do children around the world spend their first day of school? Some eat warm akara for breakfast in Nigeria, while others unwrap lunches of kluski in Poland. In China, they practice intricate