Hoodoo, Ronald L. Smith
Hoodoo, Ronald L. Smith
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Hoodoo

Author: Ronald L. Smith

Narrator: Ron Butler

Unabridged: 5 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2016

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic: hoodoo, as most people call it. But even though his name is Hoodoo, he can't seem to cast a simple spell. When a mysterious man called the Stranger comes to town, Hoodoo starts dreaming of the dead rising from their graves. Even worse, he soon learns the Stranger is looking for a boy

About Ronald L. Smith

Ronald L. Smith is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award–winning author of several acclaimed novels for young readers, including Hoodoo, The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, Gloom Town, Where the Black Flowers Bloom, and the Black Panther: The Young Prince series. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. To learn more, visit strangeblackflowers.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vicki on March 19, 2025

Mandagore... The One That Did the Deed... HOODOO by Ronald L. Smith No spoilers. 5 stars. Hoodoo, a young black boy living in 1930s Alabama, is marked. He should be a master in hoodoo, but he lacks faith until... One day... While Hoodoo was in the town's only store, a tall man dressed in black with a ta......more

Goodreads review by ✦BookishlyRichie✦ on December 28, 2020

4 STARS!! "The Princess and the Frog meets AHS: Coven" THIS WAS AWESOME. It was scary, thrilling, heartbreaking, and one hell of a ride. Hoodoo is one of the best characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading, I just love his heart, and his determination to set things right and save everyone. This......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on September 20, 2016

I'm only partway through this, but I just wanted to note already: HOODOO has one of the most fabulous narrative voices of any MG novel I've read in a long while. It's SO delicious and compelling, and I love the way the (creepy) magic is worked so seamlessly into everyday life! I'm really loving this......more

Goodreads review by Thistle & on November 21, 2020

Enjoyed this middle grade debut from Smith. The atmosphere and creepy imagery were wonderful. The antagonistic Stranger, in all his incarnations, was threatening. Hoodoo is an endearing protagonist. He's perpetually the odd one out - his mother's dead and his father lives in a disgraceful exile, he'......more

Goodreads review by Maranda on July 26, 2015

3/5 stars You can find all my reviews here. *Disclaimer: I received a copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.* Set in Alabama during the 1930s, Hoodoo tells the story of twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher, who is born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic, or Hoodoo, as......more

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