Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy

Never Trust a Dead Man

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Slog's Dad

The Whispering Skull

The Sledding Hill

The Secret of Danger Point: Surfside Girls

Texting the Underworld

Alfonso Jones can’t wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school’s hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun, and he shoots Alfonso.

When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he’s on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso’s family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets. As they confront their new realities, both Alfonso and those he loves realize the work that lies ahead in the fight for justice.

In the first graphic novel for young readers to focus on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, as in Hamlet, the dead shall speak—and the living yield even more surprises.

Foreword by Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy

Tony Medina, Cozbi A. Cabrera, Floyd Cooper, 2018

Never Trust a Dead Man

Vivian Vande Velde, 1999

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Jess Rothenberg, 2012

Slog's Dad

David Almond, Dave McKean, 2010

The Whispering Skull

Jonathan Stroud, 2014

The Sledding Hill

Chris Crutcher, 2005

The Secret of Danger Point: Surfside Girls

Kim Dwinell, 2017

Texting the Underworld

Ellen Booraem, 2013