![]() ![]() Mild sexual content includes hand-holding and cheek-kissing. King and the Dragonflies (2020) is a teen and young adult fiction novel about a Black youth in a small Louisiana town. The owner of the truck is Sandy's older brother, Mikey, so interactions between King and Mikey carry a lot of scary tension, though no violence occurs. ![]() A violent, racist murder is referred to: Four White teens beat then tied a Black man to the back of a pickup truck and drug him around the bayou until he was dead. And then, his former friend Sandy disappears, plunging King into a situation that threatens to reveal secrets and destroy relationships all across town. It tells the story of King, a studious seventh-grader who's mourning the recent death of his treasured older brother, Khalid, while also navigating normal teenage "stuff" - like parents who don't get him, racial and sexual identity, and friendship troubles. Parents need to know that Kacen Callendar's King and the Dragonflies won a 2021 Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Mikey Sanders, who's about 17 years old, is seen smoking or smells like cigarette smoke on two occasions.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]()
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