lukethelibrarian reviewed Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a …
2022 #FReadom read 14/20
5 stars
In my 2022 #FReadom reading list of books removed or threatened in Texas libraries and schools, my 14th read was the deeply affecting Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. jewellparkerrhodes.com/children/books/ghost-boys/
While Ghost Boys is a very personal story about a police shooting of a young teen with a toy gun, Rhodes deftly avoids villianizing an individual - instead allowing the ghost boys to lift us readers to a different plane, to survey bigger, societal issues.