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How It Went Down
Contributor(s): Magoon, Kekla (Author)

ISBN: 1250068231 ISBN-13: 9781250068231
Publisher: Square Fish

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2015

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 14-18

Grade Level: 9-13

Lexile Measure: 560 HL (High-Low)

Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.70 lbs) 352 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 170202
Reading Level: 4.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0

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Publisher Description:

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.

In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth.

Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.

How It Went Down is a timely story by acclaimed author Kekla Magoon who won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for The Rock and the River, and whose book X: A Novel (written with Ilyasah Shabazz) was longlisted for the National Book Award.

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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.

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