X: a Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon. 384 p. Candlewick Press, January, 2015.
#tbt features X: a Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon. Written in the first-person present tense, readers follow young Malcolm Little as he leaves Lansing, Michigan for Boston, hoping to make a new start only to find doors closed, but the streets welcoming. While Malcolm hustles, he flashes back to key moments of his childhood, like his father's death, a teacher's harsh words and seeing the body of a lynched man.
The novel ends when Malcolm converts to Islam while in prison, but an author's note adds historical context. X: a Novel won a Coretta Scott King Honor and the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. Ms. Shabazz also wrote two other books about her father - a picture book and a middle grade novel, as well as a middle grade novel about her mother.
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