Ghost Boys
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2018
Word Count 20,855
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 360L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 194391
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Police shootings--Fiction
- Death--Fiction
- Chicago
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Fiction | Ghost Stories
- Family life--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Fiction
- Police shootings
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Family life
- African Americans--Fiction
- Till, Emmett
- African Americans
- Illinois
- Racism--Fiction
- Death
- Racism
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
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- 5th to 6th GT Summer Suggested Reading
- Inequity, Equality, and Organizing
- Race, Police And Justice
- Anti-Racist Reading List
- Understanding Race and Anti-Racism
- 8th Grade Suggested Reading 2020-21
- Conversations through Literacy
- 7th Grade Novel Selections By Unit
- Western Hemisphere
- Diverse Lit Kits, 5-8
- 7th Grade Novel Selections By Unit
- Middle School BOB 20-21
- Reading Colors Your World: iREAD Teen
- Name That Book - Intermediate
- Project Lit Community 2020-2021
- Project Lit Community 2020-2021
- Historical Fiction
- 3 Star Program, 2020 Middle School Nomin
- Children's Choices
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 9
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Educator's Guide from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Reader's Theater Script from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019-2020
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Book Club Guide from Little, Brown and Company
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Educator Guide from Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Book Readings 4

Video Book Reading of "Chapter 1" narrated by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Video Book Reading narrated by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Awards & Distinctions 12

Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2021
Winner, 2019

Charlotte Huck Award, 2015-2021
Honor, 2019

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2021
Commended, 2019

E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, 2012 - 2019
Winner, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2020
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2019

ILA Children’s Choices Reading List, 2015-2020
Selection, 2019

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2020
Selection, 2019

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2020
Young Reader and Middle Grade Fiction Honor, 2019

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2020
Selection, 2018

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Middle Selection, 2018
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