# Ghost

**Author:** Jason Reynolds
**Lexile:** 730L
**Grade range:** Grades 5–8
**Age range:** 10–14
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 192
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781481450157`
**ISBN-10:** `1481450158`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ghost
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Castle 'Ghost' Cranshaw has always been running — from bullies, from his father's violence, from himself. When a track coach spots his natural speed, Ghost finds a team, a mentor, and a chance. First book in the Track series. National Book Award finalist and widely assigned in 5th-8th grade urban-setting units.

## Themes

- running
- family violence
- mentorship
- identity
- teamwork

## Content notes

- domestic violence
- poverty

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 10+

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