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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Whew!!!! This one was POWERFUL!! Once again YA Lit is running the game!! Gut punching and brutal in it's emotion and truth yet still resonates with hope and love. A truly unique voice that should be heard by all!
I’m going to say what other readers ahead of me have said - this is an important book. And where it’s going to make a lot of impact is when it’s used as a read aloud. The conversations that can be had with peers in many communities will be powerful.
Ghost Boys is phenomenal. A powerful, timely, necessary book, and one written for our middle grades kids who need to hear these stories also. A must-read of 2018 for all educators, and a must-purchase for 4th grade and up classroom and school libraries.
This book needs to be read by everyone. Young or old. This book will change lives. It needs to. I am so happy I picked this up. Just wow.
This is probably the most powerful middle grades book I have ever read. It introduces kids to social justice in a very appropriate way.
A heartbreaking yet necessary story of Jerome and all the boys who have been killed before him. Jerome is killed by a police officer while playing with a toy gun in the park because he is black. As his ghost haunts his family and the family of the officer who killed him Jerome meets Emmet Till and learns his story. He also learns that Sarah the daughter of the officer can see him.
The beauty of this novel is the hope it leaves you at the conclusion. The hope that the youth will see the injustice and help to fight it.
Middle grade read. Good for grades 5-8th
The beauty of this novel is the hope it leaves you at the conclusion. The hope that the youth will see the injustice and help to fight it.
Middle grade read. Good for grades 5-8th
An important book to read and share. Thank you Matthew Winner for encouraging me to read it.
A beautiful, terrible, necessary book. Although it is written for children, the author captures the complexity and senselessness of racial injustice without watering down the tragedy of it, and yet somehow manages to make it accessible to her audience. Many kids will see themselves reflected in these pages and learn, maybe for the first time, that the problem is not THEM.
This line in particular stood out to me as relevant in this moment. “It’s okay that Sarah’s still troubled; she should be. It’s how Sarah helps herself and the world” (p. 184). In my humble opinion, Ghost Boys should be a required text for all Americans.
This line in particular stood out to me as relevant in this moment. “It’s okay that Sarah’s still troubled; she should be. It’s how Sarah helps herself and the world” (p. 184). In my humble opinion, Ghost Boys should be a required text for all Americans.