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A Summer of Kings
Han Nolan

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.

20th century, African Americans, Black Muslims, Civil rights movements, Family, Family life, fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, New York (State), Race relations, Westchester County (N.Y.)