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Singer Willow Smith doesn’t just write music, she's a novelist too. The 23-year-old child of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow's debut book is an ambitious contemporary fantasy that centers a young Black girl as its protagonist and is poised to start a compelling book series. Smith teamed up with the Los Angeles-based writer Jess Hendel for "Black Shield Maiden," (available now from Del Rey, pp. 467) about Yafeu, a brash young African girl with ambitions of becoming a warrior, who endures a nightmarish journey after being stolen from her village and taken to a distant European kingdom. There she finds herself once again in torment, in an unfamiliar land with strange gods and customs in forced servitude. She is soon selected to serve a princess named Freydis, though Yafeu never lets go of her true desire: to become a warrior. When she gets the opportunity to join the kingdom's shield maidens, she finds more than she hoped: Friendship, love, freedom and what it means to lead.
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