Winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Co-written
by Malcolm X s daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the
formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.
Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve
anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies after all,
his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams
of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no
point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and
New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and
reefer.
But Malcolm's efforts to leave the past behind lead him into
increasingly dangerous territory. Deep down, he knows that the freedom
he's found is only an illusion and that he can't run forever.
X follows Malcolm from his childhood to his imprisonment for
theft at age twenty, when he found the faith that would lead him to
forge a new path and command a voice that still resonates today.
