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Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes

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A heart-breaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.

Soon Jerome meets another Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father’s actions.

Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today’s world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.

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Published September 10, 2019 by Little, Brown

First published April 17, 2018

Literary awards : Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee (2020), Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Children (2019), Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award Nominee for Grades 6-8 (2021), Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2020), NAIBA Book of the Year for Middle Grade (2018), Truman Readers Award Nominee (2021), William Allen White Children’s Book Award for Grades 6–8 (2021), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children’s (2018), NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor Book (2019), Walter Dean Myers Award for Younger Readers Category (2019), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Nominee (2022), NAIBA Carla Cohen Free Speech Award (2018)

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Condition

Very good
Format

Paperback
Language

English
pages

240

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