A review by mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd
Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
3.0
This was a decent read with a novel premise: a black boy playing with a toy gun is shot by a white police officer. As a ghost, he meets the ghost of Emmitt Till and a host of other "ghost boys", along with the one living person who can see and hear him: the daughter of the officer who shot him.
The story introduces deep ideas about race and discrimination, and how the people on both sides are harmed by them.
Although I understand the book was written for a younger readership, I got hung up on the simplicity of narration and basic sentence structures. For me, that made it good, but not great.
The story introduces deep ideas about race and discrimination, and how the people on both sides are harmed by them.
Although I understand the book was written for a younger readership, I got hung up on the simplicity of narration and basic sentence structures. For me, that made it good, but not great.