Title:
Ghost boys
Author:
Summary:
"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 ghost: 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." -- Amazon.com.
Audience:
Middle School.
Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 60 (medium) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 90 (high) Lexile.
General Note:
Includes discussion questions.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
214 pages ; 21 cm
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 3.0 3.0 194391.
Accelerated Reader AR 3.0 3.0 194391.
Lexile 360L.
Personal Subject:
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9780316262286
9780780412361
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
©2018
Award Note:
Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee, 2019-2020.
Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2019
Walter Award, Younger Readers Category, 2019
Call Number:
M RHODES