| Light It Up Contributor(s): Magoon, Kekla (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250619866 ISBN-13: 9781250619860 Publisher: Square Fish OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - African American - Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2019002033 |
| Lexile Measure: 480 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength--as well as an incredible follow-up to the highly acclaimed novel How It Went Down. A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She's hurrying. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and killed an unarmed thirteen-year-old girl. The community is thrown into upheaval, leading to unrest, a growing movement to protest the senseless taking of black lives, and the arrival of white supremacist counter demonstrators. This title has Common Core connections. |
Contributor Bio(s): Magoon, Kekla: - Kekla Magoon is the author of Camo Girl and The Rock and the River, winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award. She is a New York City-based editor, speaker, and educator. In addition to writing fiction, Kekla leads writing workshops for youth and adults, writes non-fiction titles for the education market, and is the co-editor of YA & Children's Literature for Hunger Mountain, the arts journal of Vermont College. |