The Secret Library

(Hardback)

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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, Dallys days are dull and restricted. Shes eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already preparing her to take over the family business. Starved for adventure and release, Dally rescues a mysterious envelope from her mothers clutches, an envelope Grandpa had earmarked for her. The map she finds inside leads straight to an ancient vault, a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time. As Dally checks out adventure after adventureincluding an exhilarating outing with piratesshe begins to dive deep into her familys hidden history. Soon shes visiting every day to escape the demands of the present. But the library has secrets of its own, intentions that would shape her life as surely as her mothers meticulous plans. What will Dally choose Equal parts mystery and adventurewith a biracial child puzzling out her identity alongside the legacy of the pastthis masterful middle-grade fantasy rivets with crackling prose, playful plot twists, and timeless themes. A satisfying choice for fans of Kindred and When You Reach Me.

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An engaging adventure, brimming with mysteries, chock-full of history, and full of twists youll never see coming. Once you step into The Secret Library, youll never want to leave.
Christina Soontornvat, three-time Newbery Honoree

Author Bio

Kekla Magoon is the renowned author of numerous fiction and nonfiction titles for young readers, including X: A Novel, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Partys Promise to the People, and The Season of Styx Malone. She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, an NAACP Image Award, a Boston GlobeHorn Book Award, and four Coretta Scott King Honors, among others. Kekla Magoon lives in Montpelier, Vermont, and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.