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Title: Ghost Boy
ISBN: 044041668X
Author:
Iain Lawrence
Publicate Date: 2002-03-12
Publish: 2002-03-12
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: an amazing book for everyone
This book was so interesting and a great story line. Once you got an idea of how the book was going to end it changed to a whole other side.
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2: i would recomend this book
The book I chose to read was ghost boy. It is about a 14 year old albino boy named Harold. In liberty, the city where he lives, kids tease him all the time about having white skin. One day, the circus comes to town and Harold decides to run away with it. He meets a very large man and a very small woman. They all became close friends. While in the circus he teaches elephants to play baseball. I liked this book because the boy doesn't have any friends and finds friends that everyone considers freaks.
I would recommend this book to any one who enjoys an adventurous story because the boy travels all across the country with the circus to see the mountains that his brother says he would see when he got back from serving in the army but, he never came back.
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3: i would recomend this book
The book I chose to read was ghost boy. It is about a 14 year old albino boy named Harold. In liberty, the city where he lives, kids tease him all the time about having white skin. One day, the circus comes to town and Harold decides to run away with it. He meets a very large man and a very small woman. They all became close friends. While in the circus he teaches elephants to play baseball. I liked this book because the boy doesn't have any friends and finds friends that everyone considers freaks.
I would recommend this book to any one who enjoys an adventurous story because the boy travels all across the country with the circus to see the mountains that his brother says he would see when he got back from serving in the army but, he never came back.
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4: Friendship vs. Acceptance
Harold is the only albino living in his small town, and, therefore, he is an outcast. He can't see very well and can't tolerate the sun very well, and all of the other kids in town see him as an easy target for their torment. Harold is miserable. The only thing sustaining him is the thought that his brother, missing in action, will come home on the train some Saturday and the two of them will ride off together to Oregon to live happily. His mother doesn't think his brother is ever going to come back, though. She thinks he is dead, just like Harold's father went to war and ended up dead.
One weekend a circus comes to town. Harold speaks with some of the circus freaks who tell him to come along with them when the circus leaves. Harold is torn; he can't decide. Then his mother and her new husband treat him badly at home and Harold finds out that there is another albino in the circus. He is sold. He leaves his home that night and goes to join the circus and to meet this elusive albino who travels alone and leaves before the rest of the group.
Huge storms hit the area and the parts of the circus, formerly traveling in a caravan together, are separated. Harold is in a trailer with the freaks of the circus, struggling to catch up with the rest of the performers. He becomes close with these people who were born with differences and were outcast like him.
But then when the circus comes together again, Harold is given a job training elephants--a job for which he has a real gift. For the first time he is accepted as a normal person, doing a normal job. In the circus there are the normal people and there are the freaks, and the two groups don't mix. Harold is being pulled in two different directions. Will he be true to his first friends, the circus freaks who asked him to join them, or for the first time in his life will he be accepted by the regular people as one of them?
I liked the descriptions of the circus, the way things worked and the way the people interacted with each other. I also liked the journey that Harold went on through this book and how he found himself and became stronger because of it.
I didn't like that Harold just left his home in the middle of the night, and that he left his dog. I also didn't like how there was such prejudice in the circus against the freaks, and how they were treated badly even there.
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5: Beautiful Story
I teach special ed with kids with severe behavior disorders. I've read Ghost Boy to or with every class for several years, ages sixth grade through twelfth, and the kids are always very responsive to the story and characters. It's a wonderful book for everyone - engaging, moving, fun and thought-provoking. (And, teachers, there's plenty of material that lends itself to lessons aimed at the visual and kinaesthetic learners- very "sensory" story.)
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