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Ghost Boys

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The #1 Kids’ Indie Next Pick


A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning writer Jewell Parker Rhodes.


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Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for an actual threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that is been unleashed on his circle of relatives and community within the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.
Soon Jerome meets every other ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but an identical circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism will 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 nowadays’s world, and how one boy grows to consider American blackness within the aftermath of his own death.



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