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Author:

Medina, Tony, author.

Title:

I am Alfonso Jones / Tony Medina ; illustrated by Stacey Robinson and John Jennings ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

Tu Booksan imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

167 pages : chiefly illustrated ; 23 cm

Subject:

Graphic novel.
Black lives matter movement--Comic books, strips, etc.
Police shootings--Comic books, strips, etc.
Teenagers, Black--Death--Comic books, strips, etc.
Ghosts--Comic books, strips, etc.
Justice--Comic books, strips, etc.
New York (N.Y.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.

Other Authors:

Robinson, Stacey, 1972- illustrator.
Jennings, John, 1970- illustrator.
Stevenson, Bryan, author of introduction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1620142635
9781620142639

OCLC:

(OCoLC)978795891

LCCN:

2017014950

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