![]() ![]() But King complies with his brother’s orders. But King liked to help his mom, who comes home from work every evening so tired. Khalid had also told his little brother he shouldn’t help his mother with dinner. Twelve-year-old King tells Sandy (also twelve) that he can’t be his friend any longer. ![]() Khalid had told his little brother, King, not to hang with Sandy or people would think he was gay. He also heard King tell Sandy that he might be gay-he didn’t know for sure. Shortly before Khalid died, he’d overheard Sandy telling King that he was gay. But King had been good friends with Mikey’s younger brother, Sandy Sanders. Mikey is white and his grandfather is known to have been a KKK member. ![]() Schoolmate Mikey Sanders, who is rumored to have killed a man, plants a T-shirt tied in a noose in King’s locker. King searches for that one dragonfly-his brother-in the bayou in Kacen Callender’s “King and the Dragonflies” (Scholastic 2020), winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature as well as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. Twelve-year-old Kingston (King) James lives in rural Louisiana and thinks Khalid has returned to this world as a dragonfly. Kingston’s brother Khalid, an 18-year-old soccer star, inexplicably dies on the field. ![]()
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