Ghost boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Type
Label
Ghost boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214)
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Middle SchoolStructure indicator: 90 (high), Syntactic indicator: 60 (medium), Semantic indicator: 100 (very high), Decoding indicator: 90 (high), Lexile
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Ghost boys
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
995846724
Responsibility statement
Jewell Parker Rhodes
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, MG, 3.0, 3.0, 194391.Accelerated Reader AR, 3.0, 3.0, 194391.Lexile, 360L.
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"--Provided by publisher
Target audience
pre adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Ghost stories
- Racism against Black people -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Family life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Police shootings -- Fiction
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- Fiction
Content
Author
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject11
- Ghost stories
- Racism against Black people -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Family life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Police shootings -- Fiction
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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