Ghost boys / by Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316262286
- 0316262285
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile fiction
- Police shootings -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Death -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Rhodes Jewell P | Available | 33111009181427 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A New York Times bestseller!
A heartbreaking and powerful novel 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 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.
Middle School
"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"-- Provided by publisher.