Ghost Boy

Name: Ghost Boy
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Iain Lawrence
ISBN: 9781436144520

Author: Iain Lawrence

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/10/2009

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

WINNER 2001 ALA Best Books for Young Adults • WINNER 2001 ALA Notable Children’s Book • WINNER 2001 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age • WINNER 2002 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. It’s been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus seems like the answer to Harold’s loneliness. He’s eager to meet the Cannibal King, a sideshow attraction who’s an albino, too. He’s touched that Princess Minikin and the Fossil Man, two other sideshow curiosities, embrace him like a son. He’s in love with Flip, the pretty and beguiling horse trainer, and awed by the all-knowing Gypsy Magda. Most of all, Harold is proud of training the elephants, and of earning respect and a sense of normalcy. Even at the circus, though, two groups exist—the freaks, and everyone else. Harold straddles both groups. But fitting in comes at a price, and Harold must recognize the truth beneath what seems apparent before he can find a place to call home.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen

It's the close of World War II. Harold Kline is an albino and an outcast living with his mother, a disheartened widow, who's since remarried. While she's trying to forget the husband and son she lost in the war, Harold misses his dead father and older loving brother who's been deemed MIA. Harold mus......more

Goodreads review by Riley

Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence is a fictional novel about a fourteen year old boy named Harold. Unlike the other children of Liberty, the town in which Harold lives, he is an albino(a medical issue that causes lack of pigmentationin your eyes, skin, and hair), and all the children know him as Ghost Boy.......more

Goodreads review by Nic

I picked this one up because I recently wrote a story featuring a boy about this protagonist's age who also has albinism, and I was interested to see how the author handles it. (Incidentally, both this and the last book I read had "ghost" in the title without referring to an actual ghost.) As far as......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

I liked the book ok because it did have a few boring parts, and the ending left me thinking there was going to be a sequel... The book is about an albino boy named Harold Kline. He runs away from his home in Liberty, USA to go to the circus. He meets Mr. Hunter, Tina (Princess Minikin), Samuel (the......more

Goodreads review by Connor

I enjoyed this book. It was good but there wasn't anything special about it though. This book is about a 14 year old boy named Harold Kline. He lives in a small town called Liberty with his Mother Mrs. Beesley, his step father Mr. Beesley, and his faithful dog Honey.Harold has been teased and bullie......more