Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson (grades 7-9)

An editor and a writer of speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson first burst onto the scene in the late 1990s with Brown Girl in the Ring. Since then, she has published five more novels and two short story collections, as well as editing a collection of Post-Colonial SF called So Long Been Dreaming. Midnight Robber imagines a planet called Toussaint, it's relationship to a prison planet called "New Half-Way Tree" and a mythical figure named Tan-Tan--the titular robber queen and her strange adventures.