![]() Agent: Adriann Ranta, Wolf Literary Services. There's little doubt that Hoodoo will prevail, yet chilling moments throughout will keep readers on edge: "The Stranger smiled, but he didn't have any teeth, just a mouth full of black, oozing swamp water." Ages 10%E2%80%9312. The action of the novel moves swiftly, and readers should be easily drawn into its dark, supernatural ambience. Hoodoo's distinctive first-person narrative is speckled with lively dialect and atmospheric details of Southern life, from fried catfish dinners and moonshine to "mojo bags" full of cat's-eye stone and rat bone. One day a stranger comes to collect a debt left by Hoodoo's father, and the boy must learn to access the supernatural to help his father in the afterlife. ![]() Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. His father was "a powerful mojo man" who allegedly met with a "bad end" after placing a curse on a man. Read reviews and buy Hoodoo - by Ronald L Smith (Paperback) at Target. ![]() Twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a magical family, but he has no knack for folk magic himself. Smith debuts with a supernatural coming-of-age story set in a 1930s Alabama town. ![]()
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