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.
Genres
- 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
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