My thoughts about the children's literature that I read which hopefully help my K-5 students and parents find a great book
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Ghost Boys
Holy cow. What a powerful book. It is unsettling and uncomfortable, but important. Jerome is a young black boy killed by a white policeman while running away with a toy gun. As a ghost, he sees how his family struggles, but he also sees the hundreds of other boys, from his era and before, who have suffered the same fate. He learns why he has still not "crossed over" from Emmitt Till, the ghost of the boy whose death helped start the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. This is timely and tragic and, unfortunately, true-to-life. There is hope for change. We can all be a part of it if we change our thinking and our prejudices. (FIC RHO)
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