# King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)

**Author:** Kacen Callender
**Grade range:** Grades 5–8
**First published:** 2020
**Page count:** 196
**ISBN-13:** `9781338129359`
**ISBN-10:** `133812935X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/king-and-the-dragonflies
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book! Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature! Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry! In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! Booklist School Library Journal Publishers Weekly The Horn Book Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. 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. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk

## Where this book is assigned

### National Book Award for Young People's Literature

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2020 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2020 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2020 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2020 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)

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