Ghost Boys

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Jewell Parker Rhodes: Ghost Boys (2014, Hachette Children's Group)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2014 by Hachette Children's Group.

ISBN:
978-1-5101-0439-6
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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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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.

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Subjects

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

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