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Waiting on Wednesday features The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership and legacy by Kekla Magoon. In never too old for picture book news, I am very excited about adding this picture book biography to the PBB cart when it releases in January! Thurgood Marshall was the first Black Justice on the Supreme Court. Former sixth graders know that reading a picture book biography can be a way to easing into reading a longer biography about an unfamiliar subject. Authors of picture book biographies will often recommend full length biographies in the back matter.
Kekla Magoon is a multiple award-winning novelist whose novels often center around social justice. She co-wrote a fictionalized biography of Malcolm X with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz as well as How It Went Down, a novel told in multiple perspectives (18!) about the shooting of an unarmed Black boy by a white passerby. She also wrote a trilogy called Robyn Hoodlum Adventures, which re-imagines the legend of Robin Hood.
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