Ghost Boys
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
4.34
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a…
Want to Read $ 6.99"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys
"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys
"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys
"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys
If you liked the middle grade plot in Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes , here is a list of 12 books like this:
1. The Crossover
By: Kwame Alexander
4.24
Format: 245 pages, ebook
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
2. Dear Martin
By: Nic Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter De… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
3. House Arrest
By: K.A. Holt
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Refugee
By: Alan Gratz
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming,… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Long Way Down
By: Jason Reynolds
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RU… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"How do you tell water ain't nothing funny about drowing?"-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Best to become invisible in times like these. Everybody knows that."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"just because they were dead. People always love people more when they’re dead."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Pretended like yellow tape was some kind of neighborhood flag that don't nobody wave but always be flapping in the wind."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
6. Ghost Boys
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
4.34
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ghost Boys book and Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ghost Boys
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys
"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys
7. Ghost (Track, #1)
By: Jason Reynolds
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
Running. That's all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track te… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
8. All American Boys
By: Jason Reynolds , Brendan Kiely
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rashad is absent again today. That's the sidewalk graffiti that started it all... Well, no, actuall… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
9. Brown Girl Dreaming
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesme… read more
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10. Booked
By: Kwame Alexander
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award Long List New York Times Bestseller Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/le… read more
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11. Arlene Sardine
By: Chris Raschka
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
Born in a fjord, a tiny fish named Arlene wants to be a sardine. Fully grown by two, she swims into… read more
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12. Restart
By: Gordon Korman
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't re… read more
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13. This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
By: Linda Barrett Osborne
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist! American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxica… read more
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14. New Kid (New Kid, #1)
By: Jerry Craft
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. When Stars Are Scattered
By: Victoria Jamieson
4.62
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee c… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- audiobook
"Pass or fail—I’ve done my best. It’s in God’s hands now."-Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered
16. Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
By: Kelly Yang
4.38
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"It's going to be okay. I'll make friends, and if I don't, I'll borrow books from the library."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
"It was hard not to stare at Jason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
"It was hard not to stare at Jjason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
"At this point, my mom started crying. She let out a sob so thunderous, I wondered if my cousins in China could hear her."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
17. Other Words for Home
By: Jasmine Warga
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
I am learning how to be sad and happy at the same time. Jude never thought she’d be leaving h… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Americans are obsessed with murder"-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
"It seems like the kind of place where dreams could grow and live."-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
"Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on."-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
18. Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
By: Nic Stone
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the stunning and hard-hitting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin, incarcerated … read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise."-Nic Stone, Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
19. Starfish
By: Lisa Fipps
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
20. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
By: Jason Reynolds
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a nove… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Got it. Here's the thing. Kenzi here got a big heart. But that big heart happens to be in a small body. Now, I don't know about you, but I would hate for that heart to be broken because that body was…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
"Difference: Then I think about Ms Broome's assignment. What could I be? What do I wish I could become to change the world? I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
"A school bus is many things. A school bus is a substitute for a limousine. More class. A school bus is a classroom with a substitute teacher. A school bus is the students' version of a teachers' loun…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
21. Blended
By: Sharon M. Draper
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?” Eleven-year-old Isabella i… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The doors of Target opened with a welcoming swoosh, and I was instantly distracted. Yeah. Target does that to me. I feel at home. They've got stuff I need. Stuff I don't need. Stuff I didn't even kno…"-Sharon M. Draper, Blended
