ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kekla Magoon is the author of many novels and nonfiction books for young adults, including 37 ­Things I Love, The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, Light It Up, and Revolution in Our Time. She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Boston Globe-­Horn Book Award, the John Steptoe New Talent Award, three Coretta Scott King Honors, the Walter Award Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and been longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives in Vermont.

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