Kwame Alexander
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| Title | : | The Crossover (The Crossover #1) |
| Author | : | Kwame Alexander |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 245 pages |
| Published | : | March 18th 2014 by Houghton Mifflin |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Young Adult. Sports. Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction. Fiction |
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"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood.Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.
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| Original Title: | The Crossover |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Crossover #1 |
| Characters: | Josh Bell, Jordan Bell |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (2015), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee for Grades 6-8 (2016), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2017), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2016), Evergreen Teen Book Award (2017) Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author Honor (2015), Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (2017), North Carolina Young Adult Book Award for Middle School (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2014), NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor Book (2015), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (2017) |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 38776 Users | 7042 ReviewsEvaluation Epithetical Books The Crossover (The Crossover #1)
Kwame Alexander's The Crossover won both the Newberry and Coretta Scott King Awards for children's literature in 2014. Combining beautiful prose with poetry that jumps off the page, Alexander tells the story of twin thirteen year basketball players Jordan and Josh Bell in a manner that makes reading fun for middle grade kids. Using basketball as a metaphor for life, Alexander imparts life lessons to adolescents in a non threatening way that has teachers reaching for his books. Josh and JordanI love the rhythm and language of this novel in verse about twins who love basketball and their larger-than-life father, but don't always connect off the court.
I listened to this one on audiobook, which was a great way to experience this book since it is written in verse.
Here's an experiment I'd like a teacher to try for me. Don't "teach" this Newbery Award winner. Instead, place a copy of Crossover on each student's desk before they enter the classroom. Maybe upside down and backward to make it a bit more tempting. And then wait to see what happens. If the students say, "Do we have to read this?" answer, "I was curious whether anyone would want to." If they say, "What are we going to do with this book?" answer, "I thought I'd ask you that question." If they
Originally posted here at Random Musings of a Bibliophile.I have said before I don't love verse novels. Do you know what I love even less? Basketball. Not a fan. Not even a little bit. With those two things working against it, I really didn't want to read The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. But it's getting a lot of award buzz so I finally (rather petulantly) picked up a copy. Ahem. This book is AMAZING. I loved it. This is why we should always stretch ourselves to read even those things that we
I am late in reviewing this, but oh my goodness, what an amazing book. Kwame Alexander gives us a novel in verse -- a series of poems about twin brothers, JD and Jordan Bell, sons of a former pro basketball player, who are making their way through middle school as best they can -- navigating first crushes, homework, family tensions, and of course, basketball. I was in awe of Alexander's ability to tell such a rich, multifaceted story with so few words. Poetry is hard, at least for me, yet
If only I could find a book like this for stock-car racing!(It is really good)
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