Kekla Magoon Books in Order

In 1968 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Sam Childs is torn between his father's nonviolent civil rights work and his brother's commitment to the Black Panthers. As tensions rise, Sam must decide what kind of courage he believes in.

This nonfiction account follows the Little Rock Nine through the 1957-58 school year at Central High. It shows the fear, public pressure, and courage behind one of the most visible battles over school integration.

Ella Cartwright, a biracial sixth-grader in Las Vegas, is pulled between new-boy popularity and her bond with her oddball best friend, Z. As school pressures mount, she has to decide what real friendship looks like.

Ellis has four days left of sophomore year, but her family is unraveling as decisions loom about her father, who has been in a coma for years. Over one tense stretch, friendship, grief, and love all shift.

Fourteen-year-old Maxie Brown wants nothing more than to join the Black Panther Party in 1968 Chicago. As police violence and community upheaval grow, her hunger to prove herself pushes her toward hard choices.

After Tariq Johnson, a Black teen, is shot by a white man, conflicting eyewitness accounts fracture the neighborhood. Told through many voices, the novel asks how a community lives with grief, rumor, and unfinished truth.

When her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees the harsh rule of Governor Ignomus Crown and joins a crew of gifted misfit kids. To save her family, she must become an outlaw in Nott City.

Before he became Malcolm X, Malcolm Little is a grieving, restless teenager trying to outrun racism, loss, and his own anger. The novel follows his path through Boston and Harlem toward a deeper reckoning.

Robyn Loxley is now Nott City's most wanted fugitive, but she is still trying to rescue her parents. An Iron Teen contest offers a way into the governor's mansion, if Robyn and her crew can survive the trap.

In book four of the shared sci-fi series, the Voyagers head underground on the planet Infinity in search of another element that can save Earth. The maze is full of alien danger, and the mission comes at a steep cost.

Robyn's rescue plan has failed, her friends have been captured, and Governor Crown gives her seventy-two hours to surrender. In the final showdown, she must choose between saving the people she loves and leading the rebellion.

Caleb and Bobby Gene expect a quiet summer in small-town Indiana until they meet the dazzling, secretive Styx Malone. His schemes promise excitement, but the boys soon discover that adventure can come with a real cost.

After a police officer kills an unarmed thirteen-year-old girl, outrage tears through a Black community already carrying grief and anger. Told in linked voices, the novel follows protest, fear, and the search for justice.

Kekla Magoon traces the Black Panther Party as both a revolutionary movement and a community force. With history, context, and vivid detail, the book shows how the Panthers organized, resisted, and cared for their neighborhoods.

This chapter book biography introduces Ruby Bridges, the six-year-old who integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. It shows how her bravery helped change the fight for equal education.

This illustrated nonfiction adventure follows William Harvey Carney, a formerly enslaved man who joins the 54th Massachusetts during the Civil War. As the regiment attacks Fort Wagner, Carney's courage turns him into a lasting symbol of resolve.

This picture book biography follows Thurgood Marshall from segregated Baltimore to the Supreme Court. It shows how his fight against unjust laws, including in Brown v. Board of Education, helped reshape American life.

Chester loves routines and the secret spy messages he believes his absent father sends him. When classmate Skye pulls him into a scavenger hunt that may stop a real heist, the mission upends everything he thought he knew.

This picture book biography follows Ketanji Brown Jackson from childhood to the Supreme Court. It highlights the setbacks she faced, her work as a public defender, and the steady determination that carried her forward.

This chapter book biography introduces Simone Biles, from a difficult childhood to the gymnastics that changed her life. It shows the work, persistence, and self-belief behind her rise in the sport.

After his older sister dies in a car crash, Kermit Sanders feels swallowed by grief. A secret group of classmates who have also lost someone offers connection, but healing turns out to be messy and hard-won.

Cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move in with their activist grandma and struggle to connect at their new school. When a hidden power grab threatens students, they join forces as everyday superheroes.

On prom night in 2005, three teen girls end up pregnant, changing all their futures. Eighteen years later, their children head toward prom with their own questions about sex, consent, identity, and expectation.

Eleven-year-old Dally finds a map from her late grandfather that leads to a hidden library where books open onto exact moments in time. Her new freedom comes with family secrets and choices that could reshape her future.

Quiet Ayana would rather help from the sidelines than perform in the class variety show. When her chatty dad starts volunteering at school, she has to find a talent and a way to be seen on her own terms.