{"id":13188,"date":"2022-11-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2022-11-29T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:00:14","slug":"celebration-and-rogue-spirits-she-needs-a-girls-guide-to-love-magic-by-debbie-rigaud-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13188","title":{"rendered":"Celebration and rogue spirits? She needs A GIRL’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MAGIC, by Debbie Rigaud (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year, the West Indian Day Parade<\/a> in Brooklyn falls on Cecile’s 15th birthday, and her vodouista aunt Tati Mimose promises it will be epic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Haitian-American teen really wants is for Tati Mimose and her devout Catholic mother to be friends again, but Grandma Rose’s death last year didn’t bring the sisters back together\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of Caribbean culture is on display for the Parade – national flags on every car, food from every island, and music, music everywhere! Superstar singer Papash will perform, then be interviewed by Tati Mimose with Cecile as her guest!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her parents’ restaurant has a corner booth on the parade route, she’ll be running more food over, meeting Papash (!!), and enjoying her birthday with best friend Renee – best day ever, made better when she runs into her crush Kwame on her way to meet Mimose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ooh, something has gone very wrong at Mimose’s tarot card reading for a man in Kwame’s building, and a dread spirit has taken over her aunt’s body!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cecile, Kwame, and Renee research how to eject the spirit, then dart through the Parade crowds, trying to keep Mimose in sight as they gather the ingredients needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Cecile do the Vodou<\/a> spell correctly?
Can they keep the spirit from getting close to Papash?
Will Kwame like her at all after this wild day of chases and spirits? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’ll take plenty of magic for Cecile to make everything right on this special day for her family and Caribbean community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What annual cultural tradition is your favorite?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: A Girl’s Guide to Love & Magic \/ Debbie Rigaud. Scholastic Press, 2022. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn falls on Cecile’s 15th birthday, and her vodouista aunt Tati Mimose promises it will be epic! What the Haitian-American teen really wants is for Tati Mimose and her devout Catholic mother to be friends again, but Grandma Rose’s death last year didn’t bring the sisters back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19,30,51,41],"tags":[163,22,265,11,182,5,37,16,18,40,44,185,43,403,169,38,184,86,186,15,206,9,21,35,8,28],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-caribbean","tag-communication","tag-cooking","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-growing-up","tag-haitian-american","tag-holidays","tag-magic","tag-mothers","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Girls-Guide-Love.jpg?fit=619%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13260,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions\/13260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}