Cover of A Summer of Kings

Book 2012

A Summer of Kings

4 readers

Publisher
Perfection Learning
Published
2012
  • Fiction
  • Race relations
  • Black Muslims
  • History
  • Civil rights movements
  • African Americans
  • Family life
  • Juvenile fiction

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.