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Why does he start running? How does his reason for running change?Ģ. The cover of Ghost includes this question: Running for his life, or from it? Explain the role that running plays in Ghost’s life. Coach Brody takes a chance on Ghost and gives him a future to run toward, but only if Ghost can learn to let go of the things he’s been running from.ġ.

Then, one day, Ghost comes across a practice in the park and decides to race one of the sprinters, a decision that leads him to join Coach Brody’s elite track team: the Defenders. Running is never something he plans to do, just like he never plans to get into altercations at school. Can Ghost harness his raw talent for speed, or will his past finally catch up to him? Reading Group GuideĬastle Cranshaw (nicknamed Ghost) learned how fast he could run the night his father was arrested. If Ghost can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city.

Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems-and running away from them-until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who sees something in Ghost: crazy natural talent.

But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons-it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. That’s all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature

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