Bibliograph

The awakening of Malcolm X, a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Tiffany D. Jackson

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Label

The awakening of Malcolm X, a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Tiffany D. Jackson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Adolescent

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The awakening of Malcolm X

Responsibility statement

a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Tiffany D. Jackson

Summary

In Charlestown State Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares while surviving life in a place unfit for humans, Malcolm drifts through his days, picking fights with fellow inmates and avoiding his family. But when he's introduced to the prison library, Malcolm realizes that the key to his freedom was within him all along. Now his dreams are not just reruns of the past but visions of a more hopeful future. And as his sentence comes to an end, Malcolm begins to awaken. For he is no longer just Malcolm Little. He is Malcolm X

Target audience

adolescent

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