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Ghost (Track series #1)
Ghost has been running since the night his dad fired a gun. 🏃🏾♂️ Coach taught him to run toward something instead.
Who it's for
Ghost is a fast, funny story about a boy who has been running since the night his father fired a gun at him and his mother.
Feelings it meets
What it is
The first book in Jason Reynolds's Track series (2016), a middle-grade novel about Castle Cranshaw, a middle-schooler who calls himself Ghost and has been running ever since the night his father fired a gun at him and his mother. Ghost gets into fights at school and is bullied, until Coach recruits him for an elite track team, the Defenders, after seeing how fast he is.
Where to find it
In print (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster) and in most libraries, including Libby/Hoopla. An audiobook exists. Followed by Patina, Sunny and Lu in the Track series.
Before you start
Heads up: Past domestic gun violence by a parent.
Age: Ages 9+
When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 290
