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Loved Ghost Boys? Try these read-alikes!
Ms. Gray Hawkins Middle Library
10/5/2023
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
"In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African-American from Chicago."
"The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
"In Chicago in 1968, Sam, 14, obeys his father, an eloquent civil-rights leader who is close with Dr. King and is passionately committed to nonviolent protest. But after King is assassinated and Sam witnesses police brutality toward a friend, Sam follows his rebellious older brother, Stephen (Stick), and joins the Black Panthers, whose revolutionary platform is the opposite of the nonviolent philosophy that Sam has been taught at home."
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
"Kids will discover where racist ideas came from, identify how they impact America today, and meet those who have fought racism with antiracism. Along the way, they'll learn how to identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their own lives"
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
"Let the circle be unbroken. An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand."