The Season of Styx Malone
by Kekla Magoon
Caleb and his older brother Bobby Gene have led a sheltered, idyllic life in a small... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Adventure
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2018
Word Count 53,400
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 510L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 197536, 7.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
- Family life--Indiana--Fiction
- Foster children--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Foster children
- Family life
- African Americans--Fiction
- African Americans
- Adventure stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Families
- Adventure and adventurers
- Indiana--Fiction
- Indiana
- Lists With This Book
- Race, Police And Justice
- Anti-Racist Reading List
- Black Experiences
- Conversations through Literacy
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Kekla Magoon about The Season of Styx Malone
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Readings 1

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Awards & Distinctions 9

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2022
Author Honor, 2019

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2021
Winner, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2021
Audiobooks Selection, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2021
Elementary Selection, 2019

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2022
Commended, 2019

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2021
Selection, 2018

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001 - 2021
Selection, 2018
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