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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--

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Main Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Juvenile fiction.
Police shootings > Juvenile fiction.
Racism > Juvenile fiction.
Death > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > Illinois > Chicago > Juvenile fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
Physical Description:214 pages ; 21 cm
Audience:Middle School
ISBN:9780316262286
0316262285
Author Notes:Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author. Her books include Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children's book, Ninth Ward. She is also the author of the writing guides Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction.

Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts." Rhodes honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards.

Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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