Kekla Magoon

Book cover of Light It Up

Light It Up

Book Résumé Kekla Magoon: Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators. (Fiction, Young Adult) Report Censorship

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Book cover of How it Went Down

How it Went Down

Book Résumé Kekla Magoon: When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree. (Fiction, Young Adult) Report Censorship

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