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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 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. Free Download [ The Crossover ] Author [ Kwame Alexander ] – kino-fada.fr 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 Jordan J 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 impart...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 bittempting 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 ask 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 ...Dear Mr Kwame Alexander, You ve got some explaining to do, Mister You are officially responsible for the first big Ugly Cry of 2014, and I am not really happy about it Thanks for the foreshadowing that did NOTHING to prepare me for this book You hear...Brilliant Beautiful Devastating Uplifting.I adored this book.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 d 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 don t think are our type of books.Josh Bellis...WOW oh WOW When a book hits a sweet spot, it zooms from one student to another As soon as I read the opening lines of The Crossover, with its basketball cover and bouncing rap beat, I just knew I had to read it aloud to my 5th graders But nothing prepared me for how it hooked them To say they are loving it is an understatement Fifth grade boys are just about wrestling each other to see who s going to get it next jostling each other over a novel in verse For Josh Bell, basketball and his fa WOW oh WOW When a book hits a sweet spot, it zooms from one student to another As soon as I read the opening lines of The Crossover, with its basketball cover and bouncing rap beat, I just knew I had to read it aloud to my 5th graders But nothing prepared me for how it hooked them To say they are loving it is an understatement Fifth grade boys are just about wrestling each other to see who s going to get it next jostling each other over a novel in verse For Josh Bell, basketball and his family are everything to him He pushes himself to excel, but he loves every minute he spends with the game especially the way he plays it with his twin brother Jordan and his dad Kwame Alexander ca...This one earned a whole extra star from me because it drew in one of my remedial readersand he loved ita book written in verse And he came and asked forbooks just like it Me You mean basketball books Student No, ones with those poems in it Be still my heart This child never likes to...The Crossover, Newbery Medalist 2015, confirms the growing trend of novels in verse form, telling basic coming of age stories in short, free verse This one follows exactly the same pattern as for example The Weight of Water or Cloud Busting , slightly different from Love That Dog and Hate That Cat , or To Be Perfectly Honest , yet another one of those seemingly endless novels which claim to be deep because the language is broken into stanzas, sometimes rhyming, but most of the time just The Crossover, Newbery Medalist 2015, confirms the growing trend of novels in verse form, telling basic coming of age stories in short, free verse This one follows exactly the same pattern as for example The Weight of Water or Cloud Busting , slightly different from Love That Dog and Hate That Cat , or To Be Perfectly Honest , yet another one of those seemingly endless novels which claim to be deep because the language is broken into stanzas, sometimes rhyming, but most of the time just stretched...Cleverly captivating, presented in poetic form, I cannot believe how much this catchy story covers I knew it d be great because I ve seen it on students desks andrecently on a few Goodreads Want to Read shelves and students never steer me wrong when it comes to book recommendations.First Newbery I ve read in a while Helped that it was about basketball my dad s favorite sport , so 4.5.

The Crossover
  • English
  • 19 August 2018
  • ebook
  • 240 pages
  • 0544289595
  • Kwame Alexander
  • The Crossover