Title: A 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)
Time periods: 20th century