兒童英語讀本

King & The Dragonflies
出版社： Scholastic U.K
書林書號：
20279707
作者：
Callender, Kacen
定價：
315
會員價：
$268
ISBN：
9780702302817
出版年份：
2020
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
272
  • 本書介紹
【蜻蜓拍翅舞動蓊鬱湖畔，男孩重新定義愛】
當透明的翅翼震動，湖水靜謐，我們的情感是否能赤誠不變？

少年金士頓確信他的哥哥凱利德已經變成蜻蜓。當凱利德意外地去世後，他脫去了第一層皮並住在路易斯安那小鎮旁的牛軛湖邊，而且他持續地造訪金的夢境，金必須保守這個秘密，即便他看見了悲痛感染著、影響著他整個家族。

如果金可以跟他曾經的好朋友桑迪傾訴這一切，也許他心情上會輕鬆許多。但是就在凱利德死前，凱利德才叫金要跟他絕交，僅僅因為桑迪告訴他們覺得自己是同性戀。「你應該不會也想被別人當成同性戀吧？」

然而，桑迪突然失蹤了，讓全鎮動員搜查。而金則在自家後院的帳篷裡找到了他曾經最要好的朋友桑迪，他答應桑迪幫他逃離虐待他的父親。他們倆便在牛軛湖旁、飛舞的蜻蜓間，建造起屬於他們的秘密基地。當金與桑迪的友情重燃，他也被迫面對他自己的性向以及哥哥死亡的真相。

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 with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid told King to end their friendship, after overhearing a secret about Sandy-that he thinks he might be gay. "You don't want anyone to think you're gay too, do you?"

But when Sandy goes missing, sparking a town-wide search, and King finds his former best friend hiding in a tent in his backyard, he agrees to help Sandy escape from his abusive father, and the two begin an adventure as they build their own private paradise down by the bayou and among the dragonflies. As King's friendship with Sandy is reignited, he's forced to confront questions about himself and the reality of his brother's death.

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