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1) Ghost boys
Author
Language
English
Description
"Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family, his friend Carlos, and his community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey toward recognizing...
2) Ghost Boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what...
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
After being fatally shot by a police officer who mistook his toy gun for a real threat, twelve-year-old Jerome navigates the afterlife alongside the ghost of Emmett Till, confronting historical racism, his family's grief, and the moral struggle of the officer's daughter.
Author
Language
English
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
6) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy Boys, little did the young readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series' author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Northern Ontario. McFarlane was perhaps the first bestselling ghostwriter in history...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's...
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Series
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns of World War II. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys marched 130 miles in six weeks over the Owen Stanley Mountains to the village of Buna. There, during two months of fierce combat, they achieved victory over the Japanese
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Space Ghost: An intergalactic superhero who files through the skies in his phantom cruiser spaceship along side his companions Jan and Jayce and space monkey Blimp defending and protecting the galaxy from evildoers and other creatures from hostile planets.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School--the place where they both were murdered. Written by Toby Litt and illustrated by Mark Buckingham (FABLES) DEAD BOY DETECTIVES VOL. 2 features the second mysterious arc from the new hit series from Vertigo. Collects DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #7-12"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Fall of the house of Tatterly volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Warding salt? Check. Florida water spray? Check. Gris-gris bag? Check. Twelve-year-old Theo Tatterly's ability to see ghosts is an extremely useful skill in a house full of family, alive and dead. At school and everywhere else, he's a loner--unless you count the spirits constantly pestering him for help. For Theo, life is easier on the sidelines, but after a run-in with a mysterious soul-stealing spirit and the possible, maybe fated destruction of...











