04091cam a2200625 4500 873648083 TxAuBib 20230628120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781338129359 133812935X B07PXTTDXY Amazon a5f0efc6-b8e9-420c-83e0-72b894577579 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5180863 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Callender, Kacen. King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold) [Libby]. Scholastic Inc., 2020. family. magical realism. LGBT. middle school. National Book Award. national book award winner. we need diverse books. sibling death. love is love. pride month. stonewall award. lgbtqia books. pride month books. missing kid. representation matters. astonishing color after. hurricane child. equal rights books. kids age 9-15. stars beneath our feet. thing about jellyfish. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:<p><b>A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book!</b></p> <p><b>Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!</b></p> <p><b>Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry!</b></p> <p><b>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.</b></p> <p><b>FOUR STARRED REVIEWS!</b></p> <p><b>Booklist</b></p> <p><b>School Library Journal</b></p> <p><b>Publishers Weekly</b></p> <p><b>The Horn Book</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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?"</p> <p>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.</p> <p><i>The Thing About Jellyfish</i> meets <i>The Stars Beneath Our Feet</i> in this story about loss, grief, and finding the courage to discover one's identity, from the author of <i>Hurricane Child</i>.</p>. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award. Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book. Notable Children's Books. Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys.) Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-06-28 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a5f0efc6-b8e9-420c-83e0-72b894577579&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a5f0efc6-b8e9-420c-83e0-72b894577579&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a5f0efc6-b8e9-420c-83e0-72b894577579&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)