by Kekla Magoon (Author)
Author Biography
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.
Number of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 08, 2023
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 9.2
Point Value: 14