Ghost
Jason Reynolds (2016)
“A kid who can't stop running from his past discovers what it means to run toward something instead.”
EraContemporary
Pages180
Difficulty★☆☆☆☆ Accessible
AP Appearances0
Character Analysis
A seventh-grader whose identity was forged on the night his father fired a gun at him and his mother. Ghost is fast, angry, funny, and deeply ashamed — of his poverty, his father, his inability to be normal. He carries a bullet casing in an Altoids tin the way a saint carries a relic. His arc is not from broken to fixed but from reactive to intentional: learning to run toward instead of away.