02232cam a2200577 i 4500 978466412 TxAuBib 20230914120000.0 190819s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019024558 9780316262262 0316262269 TxAuBib rda Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Ghost boys. Ghost Boys / Jewell Parker Rhodes. First trade paperback edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 217 pages : paperback ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till. Middle School. Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 60 (medium) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 90 (high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader MG 3.0 3.0 194391. Accelerated Reader AR 3.0 3.0 194391. Lexile 360L. 20230914. Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 Juvenile fiction. Police shootings Juvenile fiction. Police shootings Fiction. Racism Juvenile fiction. Racism Fiction. Death Juvenile fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Families Illinois Chicago Juvenile fiction. Families. Death Fiction. Death. African Americans Fiction. African Americans. Police shootings. Race relations. Racism. Ghost stories. Family Life Illinois Chicago Fiction. Chicago (Ill) Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction. Social problem fiction.