![]() ![]() Ghost lived a hard life with his mom, for they weren’t the most wealthy. ![]() At first his mom didn’t want him to join the track team and said that he needed to focus on school, not sports. ![]() The story goes on as Ghost practices with the team but struggles with school bullies, money, and his past. He assumed that he could run faster than Lu, after all he wasn’t that fast, and to the coach and whole team’s surprise, Ghost won. He was watching their first practice of the season when he challenged one of the fastest runners, Lu, to a hundred meter sprint. The day that Ghost joined the Defenders was sudden and surprising. ![]() They ran for their lives to the local convenience store and hid until the dad got arrested. Three years earlier Ghost’s dad had gotten drunk, went into a violent uncontrollable anger and tried to shoot him and his mom as they fled the house. Ghost never planned on joining the team, or any other team, in fact, the night that Ghost really learned how to run was also the most horrifying night of his life. The book, Ghost, is the first book in Jason Reynolds track series and follows the story of seventh grader Castle “Ghost” Cranshaw as he joins the Defenders track team. ![]()
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