num_pages: 240
description: The start of an exciting series filled with Caribbean folklore and daring adventure.Corinne La Mer claims she isnt afraid of anything. Not scorpions not the boys who tease her and certainly not jumbies. Theyre just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldnt belong to a jumbie. Or could they?When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty called Severine turns up at Corinnes house danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didnt know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home.
language: English
title: The Jumbies
publisher: Algonquin Young Readers