Ghost Boys Signed 9c Solid Floor Display - Indies

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Jewell Parker Rhodes: Ghost Boys Signed 9c Solid Floor Display - Indies (2018, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

256 pages

English language

Published 2018 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

ISBN:
978-0-316-47934-9
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5 stars (1 review)

"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--

11 editions

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, fiction
  • African americans, fiction
  • Family life, fiction
  • Chicago (ill.), fiction
  • Ghosts, fiction
  • Children's fiction

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