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Earlier this summer I read an amazing book called Ghost by Jason Reynolds. This book is a realistic fiction book about a kid named Castle who has a boring everyday life. One day, he goes to a track and field practice to sit and watch. There is this cocky kid named Lu who thinks he’s faster than everyone else and Castle wants to prove him wrong. Castle goes down to the grass beside the track and races Lu. Castle won the race and the coach wanted him on the team so Castle joined. Castle was always in trouble and he had to stay out of trouble to stay on the team. Anytime Castle got in trouble the coach would cut him some slack because he knew his home life wasn’t the best.  

This blog post is a post about if this book is a mirror or a window book. A mirror book is a book that you can relate to and/or could’ve  happened to you before.  A window book is something that has never happened to you before and/or cannot relate to. For me this book is both a window and mirror book. It’s a window book because I rarely get in trouble and my home and family life is pretty good. This book is a mirror book for me because I love track and field but hate conditioning. This is also a mirror book for me because Castle loves sunflower seeds and so do I except I don’t eat them everyday after school. If I had to choose if it was more of a window or a mirror book I would choose window because I have tiny struggles but I don’t relate to the extreme struggles Castle has gone through. 

I chose this book because it’s one of my favorite books and I feel like this book is a good book to talk about for this subject. I choose books by the epilogue not by if it’s a window or mirror book. This book doesn’t have any situations that would be a mirror for me if it wasn’t already a mirror part.