The Changing Man
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative mystery by Tomi Oyemakinde.
Face front. Watch your back. BE BRAVE.
Despite Ife Adebola being in the Urban Achievers scholarship program at Nithercott School, her parents can barely afford the tuition. No matter how much the prestigious boarding school tries to pull her in,
or who wants to be friends with her, like her classmate Bijal, Ife is determined not to get caught up in any of it.
But when another student begins acting out of character, Ife can’t help but wonder if there’s more going on at Nithercott than she realizes. Could there be any truth to the school’s decades-old legend of the Changing
Man? Is there any connection to the missing older brother of her classmate, Ben?
As more questions arise, Ife has no choice but to team up with Ben and Bijal to investigate. But can the trio act quickly enough to uncover who—or what—is behind everything, before they become the Changing Man’s next victim?
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When Leon, a scholarship student at the prestigious Nithercott School, receives a text from his crush, he heads into the woods to find her. There, Leon instead encounters and enters a mysterious orange mist and is never seen again. A month later, Nigerian American Ife, a new student attending Nithercott, learns of his disappearance through rumors from peers. Some suggest that it's the handiwork of the violent Changing Man, the school's harrowing urban legend who "preys on the lonely at heart." Because of racist interactions with school administration and her anxiety attacks, Ife struggles adjusting to life at Nithercott, though she manages to befriend students Malika and Bijal. After Malika briefly goes missing and reappears with a seemingly different personality, Ife partners with Bijal and Leon's younger brother Ben to investigate the strange happenings at the academy. In this mind-bending supernatural debut, Oyemakinde uses a dark academic setting to examine themes of loss, loneliness, friendship, and change. Ife's developing bonds with Bijal and Ben help transform her from a withdrawn introvert into a fierce final girl as she navigates the narrative's hair-raising horrors. Supporting characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 14–up.