hwafacts.blogg.se - Booked by Kwame Alexander

These challenges - which seem even harder than scoring a tie-breaking, game-winning goal - change his life, as well as his best friend's. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, football, family, love, and friendship take centre stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents' break-up, stand up to bullies, and impress the girl of his dreams. Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you. If Booked sends readers looking for more verse novels Sarah Crossan’s The Weight of Water is also excellent while Patrick Neate's Small Town Hero is great on football and teen life. Booked is written in free verse, like the author’s previous novel The Crossover, and the form brilliantly catches the energy and ups and downs of Nick’s life, giving his story an immediacy that helps make this irresistible reading. When he’s hit by the twin blows of an injury and the news that his parents are separating however, Nick is surprised to find real comfort in books. Cody and Nick are on opposing football teams but the same side for everything else, including facing up to the school bullies. This doesn’t go down well with his father, a linguistics professor with ‘chronic verbomania’, but at least his best friend understands. Nick is football mad, finding more poetry, more to stimulate him on the soccer field and with a ball at his feet than he ever does in books. Shortlisted for the CLPE Children’s Poetry Award (CLiPPA) 2017 13 Children's Books Featuring Poverty and Homelessness.30 enticing chapter books for children who are newly independent readers.

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