Florida school halts use of fictional book in which cop kills Black child
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School board blocks book about Black boy killed by white cop
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Florida School Board Shelves Children s Novel About a Boy Killed by Police
On 5/10/21 at 5:11 PM EDT
Sun-Sentinel reports that the book in question is Jewell Parker Rhodes s Ghost Boys. A fifth-grade classroom in Coral Springs, Florida, was studying the book together before the Broward County school board ordered the classroom to immediately cancel all readings and assignments related to the book.
The novel is told from the perspective of 12-year-old Jerome, a Black child who was fatally shot after a police officer mistook his toy gun for a real one, according to the book blurb found on Goodreads. Jerome s ghost befriends the ghost of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, who helps Jerome understand the circumstances surrounding his death. In the story, Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer responsible for Jerome s death.