Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Medina, Tony,

Publication

New York : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. [2017]

Details

Additional Authors

• Jennings, John, 1970-
• Robinson, Stacey, 1972-
• Stevenson, Bryan,

Description

167 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.

Subject

• African Americans > Social conditions > Comic books, strips, etc
• Black lives matter movement > Comic books, strips, etc
• Black lives matter movement > Juvenile fiction
• Black lives matter movement
• Ghosts > Comic books, strips, etc
• Justice > Comic books, strips, etc
• New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > Comic books, strips, etc
• Police shootings > Comic books, strips, etc
• Racism > Comic books, strips, etc
• Teenagers, Black > Death > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Comics (Graphic works)
• Fiction.
• Graphic novels.
• Juvenile works.

Call Number

Sc E 17-1380

ISBN

• 9781620142639
• 1620142635

LCCN

2017014950