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King and dragonflies5/23/2023 ![]() As King’s friendship with Sandy is reignited, he’s forced to confront questions about himself and the reality of his brother’s death. “You don’t want anyone to think you’re gay too, do you?”īut 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. ![]() 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. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. ![]() Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. 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. Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. King and the Dragonflies (2020) is a teen and young adult fiction novel about a Black youth in a small Louisiana town. ![]()
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