![]() ![]() From the opening line, Maybe you have never read a book written by a ghost before, the reader is put on notice that this is no normal book. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, How I Became a Ghost is a tale of innocence and resilience in the face of tragedy. A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost-one with the ability to help those he left behind 009-012 Accelerated Reader MG 3. spare and authentic." -Dean Schneider, THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINEĢ014 American Indian Youth Literature Award -American Indian Library Association, ALAĢ016-2017 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Book Award Master ListĢ014 Oklahoma Book Award, finalist, juvenile fiction -Illinois Book Award Master List CommitteeĢ014 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People -National Council for the Social Studies & Children's Book Council Published in 2013 by Tim Tingle, How I Became a Ghost is a work of middle grade fiction that follows a young boy in the Choctaw nation and his death on the. ![]() ![]() "Tingle, a Choctaw storyteller, relates his tale in the engaging repetitions and rhythms of an oft-told story. a recommendation for reluctant readers who like their history tinged with the otherworldly." RECOMMENDED -The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Literature "The beginning of a trilogy, this tale is valuable for both its recounting of a historical tragedy and its immersive Choctaw perspective." KIRKUS, STARRED REVIEW -Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2013 ![]()
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