Jewell Parker Rhodes

A powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers - one who presents as white, the other as Black - and the ways they are forced to navigate a world that doesn't treat them equally. Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few Black boys at his school, he feels as if he is constantly swimming in whiteness. Most of...

Ghost Boys, the New York Times bestselling novel about a Black boy killed by a white police officer from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, is brought to a new audience in this heartbreaking and powerful graphic novel with striking colour artwork by Setor Fiadzigbey. ALIVE Twelve-year-old Jerome doesn't get into trouble. He goes to school. He does his homework. He...

A New York Times Bestseller This was one of my most anticipated 2018 books and I was not disappointed. A must-read. - Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give ‘Tender, timely ... surprising and hopeful’ - Observer A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a white police officer, drawing connections with real life, from award-winning...

A New York Times bestseller! “Rhodes deftly captures a unique aspect of this historical event, with a perspective that is often under-represented in historical fiction. A poignant and honest look at the trials of racism that defined the historic land rush; a must-buy.” - School Library Journal, starred review It's 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a...