King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)

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King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book! Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature! Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry! In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! Booklist School Library Journal Publishers Weekly The Horn Book Twelve year old Kingston James is

These characters grapple with desire

a secretary tries to convince her boss of the potential of moving pictures

before the video abruptly ends

The escalation to possible Armageddon is convincingly viewed from a variety of perspectives (the author comes frightening close to reality in many cases)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience

In a failing city

complexity

The Invisble Man

unleashing a series of events that will forever change Shaka’s sense of herself as a woman in the world

In “Raking

or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story

contemporary newspaper reporting

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