Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Review Quotes: "Reminiscent of now-classic works by Katherine Paterson, Natalie Babbitt and Lois Lowry, The Season of Styx Malone brings the darkness of fear and trauma into the bright sun of summer days."
--Shelf Awareness, starred review
"A summertime romp filled with trouble-making, camaraderie, and substance."--
School Library Journal, starred review
"Heartening and hopeful, a love letter to black male youth grasping the desires within them, absorbing the worlds around them, striving to be more otherwise than ordinary. Please share."--
Kirkus Review, starred review
"Spending time with Styx, Caleb, and Bobby Gene is an experience no reader will soon forget. "--
Horn Book, starred review
"Interweaving themes of risk taking and trust, betrayal and forgiveness, Magoon
(How It Went Down) crafts a novel that is genuinely funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting--extraordinary, in fact."--
Publishers Weekly, starred review
