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Daughters of Oduma

7 February, 2023

A Black teenage girl stands sideways on this illustrated cover, but her head is turned to look at the viewer. She has short, tightly curled hair and is wearing what looks like a crown of branches and leaves and a white tank top. She has a larger frame and looks strong, with one hand clenched into a fist. Behind her is a gold sky and dark brown silhouettes of people.Daughters of Oduma by Moses Ose Utomi
Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Eat. Dance. Fight.

This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle’s elite, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. But it isn’t really Dirt’s life anymore. At sixteen, she is old and has retired from competition. Instead, she spends her days coaching the younger sisters of the Mud Fam and dreading her fast-approaching birthday, when she’ll have to leave her sisters to fulfill whatever destiny the Gods choose for her.

Dirt’s young sisters are coming along nicely, and the Mud Fam is sure to win the upcoming South God Bow tournament, which is crucial: the tiny Fam needs the new recruits that come with victory. Then an attack from a powerful rival leaves the Mud without their top Bower, and Dirt is the only one who can compete in the tournament. But Dirt is old, out of shape, and afraid. She has never wanted to be a leader. Victory seems impossible—yet defeat would mean the end of her beloved Fam. And no way is Dirt going to let that happen.

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