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Review of The Minus-One Club
The Minus-One Club by Kekla MagoonHigh School Holt 368 pp.1/23 9781250806208 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250806215 $10.99The Minus-One Club has two rules: “1. Tell no one else about us. 2. We never talk about IT.” “IT” is death, and the loss of a loved one is the only admission criterion for the...
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Review of Chester Keene Cracks the Code
Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla MagoonIntermediate, Middle School Lamb/Random 304 pp. g7/22 978-1-5247-1599-1 $16.99Library ed. 978-1-5247-1600-4 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1601-1 $9.99Twelve-year-old Chester Keene is perfectly content to adhere to his regular routines, making sure he doesn’t worry his mother with his daily struggles (including an increasingly aggressive bully)...
Review of Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon Middle School, High School Candlewick 390 pp. g 11/21 978-1-5362-1418-5 $24.99 In October 1966, in Oakland, California, Black college students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale began to organize in reaction to rising police brutality in...
Our Foundation, Our Springboard: The Trailblazing Work of Mildred D. Taylor and Jacqueline Woodson
Because Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Mildred D. Taylor have been so recently profiled in these pages (see the May/June 2019 and July/August 2020 issues), we decided instead to offer this year's Margaret A. Edwards Award winner Kekla Magoon space to...
Review of The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy by Kekla Magoon; illus. by Laura Freeman Primary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-291251-0 $17.99 “Thurgood would become the first to do a lot of things that a Black person had never done before.” When he attended Lincoln University,...
Our Modern Minstrelsy
The phrase literary blackface came up in popular conversation recently, when Barnes & Noble announced they were putting out a line of classic literature titles that had been reissued with “diverse” covers in celebration of Black History Month. Novels like Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and The Secret Garden...
A Note from Me (June 4, 2020)
Dear friends: I know I’ve been sending you some rather lighthearted thoughts in this COVID-era newsletter but I just can’t do it this week. Instead I’ll simply direct you to Kekla Magoon’s contribution to our May/June 2020 Breaking the Rules special issue of the Magazine, “Our Modern Minstrelsy,” in which...
The Season of Styx Malone: Kekla Magoon's 2019 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Award Speech
A few years back, a friend and I went into a frozen yogurt shop — you know, one of those places where they give you a big bowl and you fill it with whatever flavors and toppings you want, and then they weigh the monstrosity you’ve created and charge you fifteen...
Review of Light It Up
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon Middle School, High School Holt 359 pp. g 10/19 978-1-250-12889-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-12890-4 $9.99 In this follow-up to How It Went Down (rev. 11/14), Peach Street is seething. Two years after a young man was gunned down by police on the same street,...
A Vision for the CSK: Past, Present, and Future
My first novel came out ten years ago, and one year later, in 2010, it was honored with the John Steptoe Award for New Talent by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury. I was surprised and delighted on a number of levels when I got the call that January...
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