I am Alfonso Jones / Tony Medina ; [illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings].
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. [2017]Edition: First EditionDescription: 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781620142639
- 1620142635
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | YA Graphic Novel | Medina, Tony | Available | 33111008843472 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Hate U Give meets The Lovely Bones in this unflinching graphic novel about the afterlife of a young man killed by an off-duty police officer, co-illustrated by New York Times bestselling artist John Jennings.
Alfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun, and he shoots Alfonso.
When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets. As they confront their new realities, both Alfonso and those he loves realize the work that lies ahead in the fight for justice.
Foreword by Bryan Stevenson , Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.