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Title:
Ghost boys
Author:
Rhodes, Jewell Parker, author.
Personal Author:
Rhodes, Jewell Parker, author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Physical Description:
214 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
"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"--
Language:
English
Reading Level:
Middle School
Personal Subject:
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955-Fiction.

Till, Emmett, 1941-1955-Juvenile fiction.
Subject Term:
Police shootings -- Fiction.

Racism -- Fiction.

Death -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Family life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.

Police shootings -- Juvenile fiction.

Racism -- Juvenile fiction.

Death -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century.

JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American.

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism.

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Violence.
Geographic Term:
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.

Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9780316262286
Format :
Book

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