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I Am Alfonso Jones
Contributor(s): Medina, Tony (Author), Robinson, Stacey (Illustrator), Jennings, John (Illustrator), Stevenson, Brian (Not Available)
ISBN: 1620142635 EAN: 9781620142639
Publisher: Tu Books
US SRP: $18.95 US
Binding: Paperback: 176 pages
Pub Date: October 15, 2017
Annotation: 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.
Featuring a foreword by Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy.
This item is Returnable
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Paranormal
- Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Violence