03428cam a2200709 i 4500 506873073 TxAuBib 20210101120000.0 190607s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019006158 9781338129335 hardcover 1338129333 hardcover 9780702302817 paperback 0702302813 paperback (OCoLC)1091241200 NJQ/DLC eng DLC rda OCLCO OCLCF QX9 UAP NYP EHH NJB YDX ORU Z#6 OCLCO UKMGB OCL CD5 TOH SCO FWR IIB NMW IOH XFF OCLCO OCL DEERP JTH KQX CHILD IUL OCLCO MNM OCL DLC TxAuBib rda Callender, Kacen. King and the dragonflies / Kacen Callender. King and the dragon flies. First edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2020. ©2020. 259 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Novel. Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid told King to end their friendship, after overhearing a secret about Sandy--that he thinks he might be gay. "You don't want anyone to think you're gay too, do you?" But when Sandy goes missing, sparking a town-wide search, and King finds his former best friend hiding in a tent in his backyard, he agrees to help Sandy escape from his abusive father, and the two begin an adventure as they build their own private paradise down by the bayou and among the dragonflies. As King's friendship with Sandy is reignited, he's forced to confront questions about himself and the reality of his brother's death. 20210101. Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2021. Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Winner, 2020. African American boys Juvenile fiction. African American boys. Brothers Juvenile fiction. Brothers Fiction. Brothers. Hate crimes Louisiana Juvenile fiction. Hate crimes Fiction. Hate crimes. Hate crimes. Juvenile fiction. Dragonflies Juvenile fiction. Dragonflies Fiction. Dragonflies. Sexual minorities Juvenile fiction. Sexual minorities. Grief Juvenile fiction. Grief. Grief. Fiction. Secrecy Juvenile fiction. Secrecy. Louisiana Juvenile fiction. Louisiana Fiction. Louisiana. African Americans Fiction. JUVENILE FICTION General. African American children Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Novels. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works.