{"id":537,"date":"2019-03-12T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/?p=537"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:05:49","slug":"ghost-by-jason-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/2019\/03\/12\/ghost-by-jason-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost by Jason Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-538 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/03\/ghost-jason-reynolds-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/03\/ghost-jason-reynolds-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/03\/ghost-jason-reynolds.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>&#8220;Running. That&#8217;s all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track team. Nope, his game has always been ball. But when Ghost impulsively challenges an elite sprinter to a race &#8212; and wins &#8212; the Olympic medalist track coach sees he has something: crazy natural talent. Thing is, Ghost has something else: a lot of anger, and a past that he is trying to outrun. Can Ghost harness his raw talent for speed and meld with the team, or will his past finally catch up to him?&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28954126-ghost\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ghost<\/em> is a quick read that is perfectly paced, featuring dynamic, real-life conflict that feels fully developed but not over-wrought or childish. Ghost makes bad decisions, but he isn&#8217;t a bad kid, an important and complicated nuance. The focus on track and competition will have strong appeal for athletes who enjoy the thrill of winning, losing, and self-imposed expectations. Reynolds sets up this series so well with a good balance of internal and external conflict, teasing you with the interesting lives of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/194389-track\">sequel novels<\/a> that are all equally as compelling and addictive.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, this amazing book has been showered with the following distinctions:<\/p>\n<p>Odyssey Award Nominee (2017),\u00a0Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children&#8217;s Book Award Nominee (2018),\u00a0Great Lakes Great Books Award for 6-8 (2018),\u00a0NAIBA Book of the Year for Middle Readers (2017),\u00a0NCTE Charlotte Huck Award (2017), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers&#8217; Book Award Nominee (2019)<\/p>\n<p>Call #\u00a0Fiction R333g<\/p>\n<p><em>Review by Vicki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Running. That&#8217;s all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track team. Nope, his game has always been ball. But when Ghost impulsively challenges an elite sprinter to a race &#8212; and wins &#8212; the Olympic medalist track coach sees he has something: crazy natural talent. Thing is, Ghost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,21,11,20,18],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diverse","tag-gun-violence","tag-poc-main-character","tag-realistic","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}