It’s so unsettled, in fact, that his father – the king, T’Chaka – sends him to the United States with the purpose of keeping him safe. The situation in Wakanda is tense – tense enough that even young T’Challa knows something bad is on the horizon. The book takes place when T’Challa is just 12 years old, and only the very beginning is set in Wakanda. The truth is, for The Young Prince, at least, it doesn’t really matter. With the film coming to digital and Blu-ray in a few weeks, now’s a perfect time to catch up on your Wakandan lore and dig into the early days of T’Challa and Black Panther.įans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe may want to know if these books fit into the canon unfolding on screen of it hey’re more tied to the comic book versions of the characters. Smith’s look back at Black Panther’s tween adventures in The Young Prince.

We covered Christopher Golden’s Runaways here, and the lineup also includes Jason Reynolds on Miles Morales, Eoin Colfer on Iron Man, Shannon Hale on Squirrel Girl, and Margaret Stohl on Black Widow. If you haven’t been paying attention, you might have missed that Marvel Press (an imprint of the massive Disney Book Group) has been putting out some truly excellent YA novels (with some spectacular authors) starring the Marvel superheroes. In order to protect his friends and stop an ancient evil, T'Challa must take on the mantle of a hero, setting him on the path to becoming the Black Panther.This was when T’Challa felt most alive, in the woods with his best friend, finding adventure and escaping his royal duties. But what he discovers in the process is far more sinister than he could ever have imagined. When strange things begin happening around school, T'Challa sets out to uncover the source. Especially when it comes to navigating new friendships while hiding his true identity as the prince of a powerful nation, and avoiding Gemini Jones, a menacing classmate who is rumored to be involved in dark magic. Despite being given a high-tech suit and a Vibranium ring to use only in case of an emergency, T'Challa realizes he might not be as equipped to handle life in America as he thought. This is no prestigious private academy-they've been enrolled at South Side Middle School in the heart of Chicago. But as conflict brews near Wakanda, T'Challa's father makes a startling announcement: he's sending T'Challa and M'Baku to school in America.

When he's not learning how to rule a kingdom from his father-the reigning Black Panther-or testing out the latest tech, he's off breaking rules with his best friend, M'Baku. Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. But right now, he's simply T'Challa-the young prince. Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading.īlack Panther.

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