Ghost boys by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2019)

BTSB #: 749479 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3 MG RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 360 HL F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Racism - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

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.

Ghost boys by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2018)

BTSB #: 749481 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3 MG RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 360 HL F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Racism - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

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.

Hate u give by Thomas, Angie 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2017)

BTSB #: 879491 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.9 UG RC: 5.3 9-12 Lexile: 590 HL

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Racism - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Witnesses - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. These worlds are shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

I am Alfonso Jones by Medina, Tony 

Paperback(Tu Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 635037 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.2 UG RC: 4.7 9-12 Lexile: 640 GN

Genres:

Subjects: Graphic novels Police shootings - Fiction Death - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction Justice - Fiction Black lives matter movement - Fiction African Americans - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.

Light it up by Magoon, Kekla 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2019)

BTSB #: 596683 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.7 UG Lexile: 480 HL

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Death - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.