Ophie and her mother flee to Pittsburgh to live with Great Aunt Rose with hopes of starting over. The next morning, Ophie learns her father was murdered by the same mob earlier that day because he voted-and that’s how Ophie discovers she can see and speak to ghosts. From there, she witnesses a mob of angry white men burn her family’s home to the ground. The novel opens in rural Georgia, as 12-year-old Ophelia “Ophie” Harrison’s father wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her to take her mother to her favorite hiding spot just beyond the tree line. In Ophie’s Ghosts, Justina Ireland transports readers back to the early 1920s, a time when Black Americans were fleeing the South to escape the poverty and persecution caused by the long arm of Jim Crow laws. The bestselling author of the young adult novel Dread Nation brings her storytelling prowess to middle grade to create a story that will definitely cause you to start seeing things-namely, ghosts, but also the injustices suffered by generations of Black Americans.
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