However, Sandy disappears, but King finds him, and agrees to help him escape life with his abusive father. While mourning his loss, King has also broken things off with his best friend, Sandy Sanders, after Khalid (before he died) heard a rumor that Sandy was gay and didn't want King to be pegged as the same. Kingston "King" James' brother, Khalid, has recently died, but King is convinced he has returned to him as a dragonfly. King and the Dragonflies has received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2020), a Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award (2021), and a Lambda Literary Award (2021). It is Callendar's second novel that explores the intersection between race, gender roles and sexuality. King and the Dragonflies is a young adult fiction book published in February 2020 by Scholastic Press and written by Saint Thomian author Kacen Callender. National Book Award for Young People's Literature
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |