Fire in the Streets
By Kekla Magoon
(Aladdin, Hardcover, 9781442422308, 336pp.)
Publication Date: August 28, 2012
Categories: Historical - United States - 20th Century, Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism, Family - Siblings
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Right after Maxie and her first boyfriend Sam got into their first major fight, Sam's brother (and best friend) died in the fight for racial eqaulity. At the end of Rock and the River, Sam made his choice: to join the Black Panthers.
Now, it's time for Maxie to tell her story.
A story that's rarely been told before-- a story about a black woman living in one of the toughest neighborhoods of Chicago right after the assassination of Dr. King. A story about a woman who has unparalelled strength. A story about a woman who just happens to be a Black Panther.
Kekla Magoon is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning and NAACP Image Award-nominated author of The Rock and the River. She lives and writes in New York City, but travel around the country presenting book programs and writing workshops for teens and adults. Kekla also writes non-fiction books for the educational market, and is coeditor of Young Adult and Children's Literature for the arts journal Hunger Mountain. She holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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