A summer of Kings

By Han Nolan

Subjects: Murder suspects, Fourteen-year-old girls, Eighteen-year-olds, Fugitives, Protests, demonstrations, vigils, New york (n.y.), history, fiction, Self-discovery in teenage girls, Race relations, fiction, African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Parent and child, Muslims, fiction, Civil rights movements, Life change events in teenagers, African-American teenage boys, Family, The Sixties (20th century), Parent and teenager, Fiction, Civil Rights Movement, Children's fiction, Individuality in teenagers, Self-discovery in teenage boys, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Eighteen-year-old men, Fourteen-year-olds, History, Race relations, Family life, Self-discovery in teenagers, Black Muslims

Description: Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.