Summer of Kings

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.

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

Places: Westchester County (N.Y.),  New York (State)

Times: 20th century