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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2009
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Blue Stars

1 - Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem (Mar-2024)

How It Went Down

1 - How It Went Down (Oct-2014)
2 - Light It Up (Oct-2019)

A Robyn Hoodlum Adventure

1 - Robyn Hoodlum (Aug-2015)
2 - Shadows of Sherwood (Oct-2016)
3 - Rebellion of Thieves (Oct-2016)
4 - Reign of Outlaws (Oct-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

Voyagers

4 - Infinity Riders (Mar-2016)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam it's not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And ...



  • A biracial student questions her identity in this contemporary novel from the author of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptor Award-winning The Rock and the River. Ella and Z have been friends forever, both of them middle-school outsiders in their L...



  • Ellis only has four days of her sophomore year left, and summer is so close that she can almost taste it. But even with vacation just within reach, Ellis isn’t exactly relaxed. Her father has been in a coma for years, the result of a construction a...



  • What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie’s choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River. Bad things happen in the heat, they say. Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moment’s notice,...



  • 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 ...



  • The night her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley must learn to fend for herself. Her home, Nott City, has been taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown. After fleeing for her life, Robyn has no choice but to join a band of strangers...



  • Earth is in danger! The only things that can save our planet are six essential elements scattered throughout the galaxy. And it is up to the Voyagers -- a team of four remarkable kids and an alien -- to gather them all and return to Earth.   On th...



  • Robyn Loxley can't rest now that she's the #1 Most Wanted Fugitive, Robyn Hoodlum. The harsh Nott City governor, Ignomus Crown, may have increased the reward for her capture, but this won't stop Robyn from masterminding her biggest mission yet: infil...



  • The night her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley must learn to fend for herself. Her home, Nott City, has been taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown. After fleeing for her life, Robyn has no choice but to join a band of strangers...






  • When twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley set out to save her parents, she never could've predicted that she would become Robyn Hoodlum, leader of the rebellion against the harsh government led by Ignomus Crown. But Robyn's attempt to free her parents has fa...



  • This lively and diverse middle-grade story from the award-winning author of How It Went Down has the warmth of a modern-day The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963. Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in t...



  • Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength -- as well as an incredible follow-up to the highly acclaimed novel How It Went Down.A girl walks home from s...



  • Cracking the code isn't all it's cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author.“Delivers a truly fresh mystery -- along with a heist, some heartbreak, some unforgettable characters and plenty of ...



  • From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down, Light It Up, and Revolution In Our Time comes a moving contemporary YA novel about the bonds between a group of teens whose lives have been upended by tragedy.Fifteen-ye...



  • Two everyday superheroes set out to save the world -- starting with their school -- in an exciting new middle-grade graphic series from two award-winning authors and a debut illustrator. When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis t...



  • A compelling, multi-generational novel from the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down, Light It Up, and The Minus-One Club, Prom Babies chronicles the stories of three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night. Eig...



  • Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure about family secrets and finding the courage to plot your own life story. Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleve...


Award-Winning Books by Kekla Magoon

How It Went Down
2015 In the Margins Book Award -- Fiction
The Rock and the River
2010 Coretta Scott King Award -- New Talent
2011 Audies -- Teen
The Season of Styx Malone
2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kekla Magoon has published 17 books.

The next book by Kekla Magoon, Prom Babies, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Kekla Magoon, The Rock and the River, was published in January 2009.

Yes. Kekla Magoon has 3 series.