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Ghost boys

Rhodes, Jewell Parker (author.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 0316262269
  • ISBN: 9780316262262
  • Physical Description: 217 pages ; 20 cm
    print
  • Edition: First trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
Middle School.
Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 60 (medium) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 90 (high) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 3.0 3.0 194391.
Accelerated Reader AR 3.0 3.0 194391.
Lexile 360L.

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Genre: Historical fiction.
Ghost stories.
Social problem fiction.

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