The hero's journey includes many stages in a story, including the ordinary world, call to adventure, and ordeal. Ghost Boys does a great job of using the hero's journey throughout the story, but the three that I'm focussing on the most are the ordinary world, Call to adventure, and ordeal. In Jeromes life, he goes through a lot like getting shot.
Jerome's first hero's journey stage is Ordinary world, this means the Typical life before the hero leaves their normal world or life. This is where Jerome is in his typical life at school, making new friends and dealing with all of the bullies. This happened before Jerome got shot. This section fits in with the book because the ordinary world in the hero's journey