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Part I (Pages 1 - 21)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: The Black God's Drums. Tor.com, (Published by Tom Doherty Associates) New York, 2018.

• This book was written in the present tense and from the first-person perspective.

• Jacqueline, or "Creeper," is a 13 year-old girl who lives on the streets of New Orleans following her mother Rose's death.

• Creeper was born in 1871 in an alternative version of New Orleans.

• She lives in Les Grand Murs, a high point where she can look over the city and choose people to steal from, which is how she survives - as a pickpocket.

• The story opens with Creeper getting an ominous vision of a skull imposed over the moon one night near "Maddi Gra" or Mardis Gras.

• Creeper sometimes experiences visions via Oya, a Goddess of wind and storm who she has always had a special...

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