Save the Date: October 20, 11:00 AM, for Kekla Magoon's Book Launch at Bear Pond Books!
Join us for a launch party for Kekla Magoon for her newest middle grade novel "The Season of Styx Malone." Author reading, refreshments, book signing and Q&A. Free and open to the public.
About the Book:
Summertime in small-town Indiana only heightens 10-year-old Caleb's frustrations with feeling ordinary. When he and his older brother, Bobby Gene, meet smooth-talking 16-year-old Styx Malone, a whole new world of excitement, and its frequent companion--trouble--opens up.
About the Author:
Kekla Magoon is the author of nine novels, including The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, X: A Novel (with Ilyasah Shabazz), and the Robyn Hoodlum Adventure series. She has received an NAACP Image Award, the John Steptoe New Talent Award, two Coretta Scott King Honors, The Walter Award Honor, the In the Margins Award, and been long listed for the National Book Award. She also writes non-fiction on historical topics. Kekla conducts school and library visits nationwide and serves on the Writers' Council for the National Writing Project. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she now serves on faculty.
Event date:
Saturday, October 20, 2018 - 11:00am
Event address:
Bear Pond Books
77 Main St
Montpelier, VT 05602
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