Description
Author: Kekla Magoon
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781536228168
ISBN10: 1536228168
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places | United States | African American & Black
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History | United States | 20th Century
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
About the Author
Kekla Magoon's young adult novel The Rock and the River, which won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, was the first mainstream novel for young people to feature the Black Panther Party. She is the Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Fire in the Streets and How It Went Down. She is also the coauthor, with Ilyasah Shabazz, of X: A Novel, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and received an NAACP Image Award and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Kekla Magoon grew up in Indiana and now lives in Vermont, where she serves on the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.