6/20/2023 0 Comments The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon![]() ![]() Magoon has also written about school integration and the Black Panther Party. How It Went Down, published in 2015, is a young adult novel influenced by the fatal shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. Although the metropolitan area is racially diverse, Magoon attended schools with few black students, and much of her writing directly confronts issues of race. Magoon spent her childhood in Fort Wayne, Ind. ![]() These awards highlight the contributions of African American authors and illustrators to children's and young adult literature. Further accolades include three Coretta Scott King Honor Book Awards - the most recent for The Season of Styx Malone. Her first young adult novel, The Rock and The River, earned Magoon a Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for new talent. ![]() She has written 11 novels, multiple essays and short stories and a nonfiction book about the Little Rock Nine. Magoon - a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts' MFA program in writing for children and young adults and a faculty member there for the past five years - is a seasoned pro. ![]() The brothers meet a new neighbor, Styx Malone - an older, cooler kid who hatches a summertime trading scheme, and has a few secrets of his own. Kekla Magoon's newest middle grade novel, The Season of Styx Malone, sucks in young readers right from the start, when brothers Caleb and Bobby Gene briefly swap their baby sister for a gunnysack of fireworks. ![]()
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