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Jewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American bestselling novelist and educator.. She is the author of several books for children including the New York Times bestsellers Black Brother, Black Brother and Ghost Boys, which has garnered over 50 awards and honors including The Walter Award, the Indies Choice/EB White Read-Aloud Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s ...
Front cover of the book. Ghost Boys is a 2018 middle-grade novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Set in Chicago, the novel follows the story of Jerome, a 12-year-old black boy who is shot and killed by a white police officer before coming back as a ghost. [1] Emmett Till, a black boy who was murdered in 1955, features as another ghost in the text ...
Here is a list of books from diverse authors that celebrate the Black experience — from history that might be unfamiliar to us to everyday life. ... Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes ...
Written by author Jewell Parker Rhodes (MAGIC CITY, PARADISE ON FIRE, TOWERS FALLING), GHOST BOYS won 2018’s “NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Book of the Year Award ...
In Fact offers the best twenty-five stories that were published in Creative Nonfiction ' s first ten years of existence. Culled from the 300 pieces published in the journal themselves chosen from over 10,000 manuscripts, the stories reprinted in In Fact showcase the possibilities of the emergent genre of creative nonfiction in pieces by already famous authors and those likely to become famous.
Jewell Parker Rhodes: Ghost Boys: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers: Winner [26] [27] Jonathan Auxier: Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster: Amulet Books: Honor [28] Sayantani DasGupta: The Serpent’s Secret: Scholastic Press: Honor [28] Adam Gidwitz, illus. by Hatem Aly: The Creature of the Pines: Dutton Books for Young Readers ...
Towers Falling, 2016 novel by American author Jewell Parker Rhodes; Truthers, 2017 YA novel by Geoffrey Girard; United States of Banana, 2011 dramatic novel by Giannina Braschi; We All Fall Down, 2007 novel by Eric Walters; Windows on the World, 2003 novel by Frédéric Beigbeder; The Writing on the Wall, 2005 novel by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Lowe was 24 when he videotaped himself having sex with a 16-year-old girl, a decision he now acknowledges was fueled by "fame, money and drugs." The two had reportedly met inside an over-21 nightclub.