Ghost Boys

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Jewell Parker Rhodes: Ghost Boys (AudiobookFormat, 2018)

[sound recording] /

English language

Published 2018

ISBN:
978-1-5491-7245-8
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OCLC Number:
1029203981

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5 stars (1 review)

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 unleashed on his family and community. This gripping story is about how children, families--and one boy--grow to understand American Blackness.

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reviewed Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

2022 #FReadom read 14/20

5 stars

In my 2022 #FReadom reading list of books removed or threatened in Texas libraries and schools, my 14th read was the deeply affecting Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. jewellparkerrhodes.com/children/books/ghost-boys/

While Ghost Boys is a very personal story about a police shooting of a young teen with a toy gun, Rhodes deftly avoids villianizing an individual - instead allowing the ghost boys to lift us readers to a different plane, to survey bigger, societal issues.

Subjects

  • Death
  • Families
  • African Americans
  • Juvenile fiction
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century
  • Family life
  • Racism
  • JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Violence
  • Fiction
  • Police shootings

Places

  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Illinois
  • Chicago

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