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The Writers' Page: The Heroes Inside Us: Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Right to Share Our Stories
"In 2018, the Horn Book published Kekla's article 'The Un-Hero's Journey,' which celebrated the quietly heroic moments that are possible even when we feel our most ordinary. That message is more relevant now than ever, in a time when librarians are fighting to keep books on the shelves, teachers are...
Review of The Secret Library
The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon Intermediate Candlewick 384 pp.5/24 9781536230888 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536237498 $18.99Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Delilah “Dally” Peteharrington’s mother wants to prepare her to take over the family business. Every afternoon, she meets with tutors to learn “important business-ish things,” but what she really wants is to go on adventures...
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Review of Prom Babies
Prom Babies by Kekla Magoon High School Holt 304 pp.4/24 9781250806253 $20.99e-book ed. 9781250806246 $11.99The year is 2005, and high school students Mina, Penney, and Sheryl are looking forward to prom night as an opportunity to dress up, dance, and have fun with their friends. Of course, there are also...
Review of Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem
Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem [Blue Stars] by Kekla Magoon and Cynthia Leitich Smith; illus. by Molly Murakami Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 176 pp. 3/24 9781536204995 $22.99 Paper ed. 9781536228663 $12.99 e-book ed. 9781536237368 $12.99 In their first graphic novel collaboration, Magoon and Smith introduce readers to cousins Riley...
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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...
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