
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author
Setor Fiadzigbey, Illustrator
Imprint: Orion Children's Books
Publication date: January 15, 2026
Category: Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781510113916
Ghost Boys, the New York Times bestselling novel about a Black boy killed by a white police officer from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, is brought to a new audience in this heartbreaking and powerful graphic novel with striking colour artwork by Setor Fiadzigbey.
ALIVE
Twelve-year-old Jerome doesn’t get into trouble. He goes to school. He does his homework. He takes care of his little sister.
Then Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat.
DEAD
As a ghost, watching his family trying to cope with his death, Jerome begins to notice other ghost boys.
Each boy has a story and they all have something in common…
Bit by bit, Jerome begins to understand what really happened – not just to him, but to all of the ghost boys.
A poignant and gripping graphic novel about how children and families face the complexities of race and racism in today’s world.
Jewell Parker Rhodes grew up in Pennsylvania. She is a best-selling author of adult and children’s books, a Coretta Scott King Honour award-winner, and a professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She currently lives in Seattle.
Setor Fiadzigbey is an artist from Ghana who loves visual storytelling in all its forms – illustration, concept art, visual development and sequential art. He works professionally across many commercial industries, such as children’s book publishing, comics and graphic novels, marketing illustration and visual development for animation.