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Publisher: Graphia Books
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century
Retail Price: $9.99
Ages: 12 - UP Pages: 348
Powerful fiction by National Book Award-winning author Han Nolan. It's 1963, and fourteen-year-old Esther Young has struck up a friendship with a black teen accused of murdering a white man in Alabama. King-Roy Johnson shows up on Esther's doorstep that summer feeling betrayed by the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. Sent north by his mother to escape a lynch mob, he meets a follower of Malcolm X's who uses radical teachings about black revolution to fuel King-Roy's anger and frustration. But with each other's help, both Esther and King-Roy learn the true nature of integrity and find the power to stand up for what is right.