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Soaring, poignant, novel in verse hits all the right spots.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that author and poet Kwame Alexander's ​ The Crossover is a poignant novel in verse that mixes basketball, family, and coming-of-age themes and includes serious issues regarding adult health and a parent's life-threatening condition. It won the 2015 Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King…

Why Age 9+?

Typical middle-school boy-girl crush stuff, in which, for example, boys discuss

Air Force 1 basketball shoes, Krispy Kreme, and NBA teams and star players are m

There's one incident of violence in which one brother knocks into the other, cau

Some mild name-calling, mainly by characters in the throes of sports-related tra

Any Positive Content?

This book, written in verse, exposes more students to a different side of poetry

Positive messages about the importance of family, responsibility, problem solvin

Through all of the main character's struggles, he remains a positive role model,

Parents need to know that author and poet Kwame Alexander 's ​ The Crossover is a poignant novel in verse that mixes basketball, family, and coming-of-age themes and includes serious issues regarding adult health and a parent's life-threatening condition. It won the 2015 Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King Book Honor , and may inspire a discussion about healthy lifestyle choices and the impact of those choices on people and their loved ones. There's mild name-calling when characters are in the throes of sports-related trash-talking, and sexual content is limited to middle-school crushes and a kiss. The novel offers a positive example of a loving, intact family with active, involved parents and uses adult characters to provide a guiding influence. There's an audiobook version narrated by Corey Allen.

Sex, Romance & Nudity

Typical middle-school boy-girl crush stuff, in which, for example, boys discuss the size of a girl's backside and middle schoolers kiss. A husband and wife have romantic moments, with their son overhearing their discussions and knowing that silence meant they were having sex.

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Products & Purchases

Air Force 1 basketball shoes, Krispy Kreme, and NBA teams and star players are mentioned, mainly to set the scene for discussion or to facilitate understanding of a character. Consumerism comes up for discussion in the context of promoting healthy eating over junk food and to acknowledge the questionable values of a star promoting a particular shoe line.

Violence & Scariness

There's one incident of violence in which one brother knocks into the other, causing his nose to bleed.

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Some mild name-calling, mainly by characters in the throes of sports-related trash-talking.

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Educational Value

This book, written in verse, exposes more students to a different side of poetry, transcending conventional parameters to convey the soaring, sweeping, fast-paced movement of the basketball court. Basketball rules teach life lessons, and the story introduces and defines new vocabulary words.

Positive Messages

Positive messages about the importance of family, responsibility, problem solving, and education are prevalent throughout the book.

Positive Role Models

Through all of the main character's struggles, he remains a positive role model, mainly because of the support he receives from other positive figures in the book, including his father, mother, and coach. Unlike many books aimed at preteens and teens, The Crossover offers a positive example of an intact family with active, involved parents and uses adults to provide a guiding influence instead of turning them into caricatures.

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Great for engaging kids who love basketball!

Love love love, what's the story.

Josh and his twin brother, JB, are inseparable, on and off the court. With the support of their father, a famous basketball player, they're poised to have a great season, maybe even win the championship for their junior high. Then things start to change. JB starts to spend more time with girls than with Josh, their dad is hiding a health issue that could change all of their lives, and Josh begins to lose his way. One big mistake, and he's suspended from the team, estranged from his brother, and wondering how much time he has left with the brightest star in his world: his father.

Is It Any Good?

Wow -- Kwame Alexander's THE CROSSOVER is a fast-moving, poignant, rhythmic ride that will leave readers breathless and in tears. Written in verse that's at times boundless and at other times masterfully restrained, it could have been just another ode to urban life, the world of sports, and teenage basketball phenoms. Instead, readers realize within a few pages that they're in for much more. Alexander tells the stories that need to be told: intact families of people who care for one another more than they care for the game, strong role models who support their children's dreams, and the realities faced by a young person growing up in today's world.

Readers will fall in love with the characters, feeling the ache of loneliness, the heavy weight of worry, and the joy of family fun. Parents will love the opportunities the book presents for positive, deep discussions, as well as its slyly hidden life lessons and basic good values.

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Book Details

• Author : Kwame Alexander
• Genre : Coming of Age
• Topics : Sports and Martial Arts , Brothers and Sisters , Friendship , Great Boy Role Models
• Book type : Fiction
• Publisher : HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date : March 18, 2014
• Publisher's recommended age(s) : 9 - 12
• Number of pages : 240
• Available on : Nook, Hardback, iBooks, Kindle
• Awards : ALA Best and Notable Books , Caldecott Medal and Honors , Coretta Scott King Medal and Honors
• Last updated : September 16, 2019

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The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander | Book Review

Book Review of The Crossover The Children’s Book Review

The Crossover

By Kwame Alexander

Ages 10+ | 240 Pages

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers | ISBN-13: 9780544107717

What to Expect: Sibling rivalry, humorous angst, great play-by-play action, well-turned phrases that capture the moment, day-by-day drama in a thoroughly likable family with sass.

There is so much to enjoy about this book:

First, the characters: Josh and Jordan Bell are twelve-year-old twins who live and breathe basketball. They are a formidable pair on the basketball court, thanks to their father, Chuck “Da Man” Bell, a former superstar with the European league who was once invited to try out for the Los Angeles Lakers. Their mother is the school principal. Both parents are loving and fair – and strict when they need to be.

The twins are inseparable buddies until a new girl with pink Reeboks appears at school. Suddenly Jordan has eyes for only her, and Josh, always half of a duet before, is now a solo. While Josh is dealing with separation angst, his mother is nagging his father to go to a doctor because of symptoms she’s noticed. But Josh’s father is afraid of hospitals and won’t even consider it. These two issues run through the book like counterpoint in a musical score.

Which brings us to the music of the author’s writing. The Crossover is told in verse – but what verse! Chapters are individual poems, sometimes rhyming, sometimes blank; sometimes sounding like hip-hop, sometimes just wonderful visuals, as when descending capital letters show a missed shot on the court, or get bigger as a player tries for a fast break. Always the poetry pushes the story along at a fast pace, and you are squarely in Josh’s head while events run their courses. Within that framework, every other character’s voice is clear as well.

“Basketball Rule #1: In the game of life/ your family is the court/ and the ball is your heart./ No matter how good you are,/ no matter how down you get,/ always leave/ your heart/ on the court.”

This is a book young people will probably want to read more than once, both for the themes in the story and for the author’s storytelling. It will appeal to middle grade readers who like sports – especially basketball – and coming of age stories.

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About the Author

Kwame Alexander  is a poet, children’s book author, playwright, producer, public speaker and performer. He conducts creative writing workshops in middle and high schools, often reaching more than 500 students monthly. He lives with his wife and two daughters in the Washington, D.C. area. Visit him at www.bookinaday.org and   www.facebook.com/KwameAlexanderBooks .

The Crossover,  by Kwame Alexander, was reviewed by Elizabeth Varadan. Discover more books like  The Crossover   by following along with our reviews and articles tagged with  Award Winning Authors ,  Books Written in Verse ,  Family Books ,  John Newbery Medal Winner ,  Sibling Rivalry , and  Sports .

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Josh and JB are twins, double trouble on the basketball court, almost 13 years old. When we first encounter them in Kwame Alexander’s beautifully measured novel of life and lines, “The Crossover,” they are deep into a year when everything changes. The story is written in verse, but have no fear: Here, poetry is in service to the interior and exterior worlds of Josh, who plays forward to JB’s shooting guard. Besides being an inch taller and the one with dreadlocks to his neck, Josh is also the brother with the larger vocabulary — by the novel’s end, he will define 12 important words and terms.

Josh and JB’s world is one in which both parents are professionals. Their father is a former European league basketball player, and their mother is an assistant principal at the boys’ junior high school. The fact that the twins are both college-bound is an understated given. That this is a portrait of a successful, close-knit African-American family in the Obama era also seems to be a part of that understatement.

“The Crossover” doesn’t ignore contemporary issues involving race. There is a traffic stop on the way to a game, in which the boys’ father (like many an African-American man) is pulled over for a minor infraction; Josh is warned by his mother about what happens to young black men who let their tempers get the better of them; his parents fight not over money or fidelity but over diet and hereditary hypertension. Alexander doesn’t seem to be pushing a social agenda so much as throwing light upon what must be, in the world of children’s literature, a very undertold story.

The novel focuses on how the twins come into their own and how their bond weathers all the changes and challenges the year bears upon it. Basketball is the novel’s red-hot engine. It is the glue connecting the sons and source of the wisdom their father passes down. Alexander takes great delight in borrowing the energy of rap and hip-hop to translate the game’s heat, speed and joy of motion to the page:

. . . A bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING My sweat is DRIZZLING Stop all that quivering Cuz tonight I’m delivering.

Alexander uses free verse to equally good effect to convey the quality of Josh’s observations:

My twin brother is a baller. The only thing he loves more than basketball is betting. If it’s ninety degrees outside and the sky is cloudless, he will bet you that it’s going to rain.

A third narrative mode is the “play by play” announcer’s voice Josh speaks in his head when he’s on the court during games:

The Wildcats have it, first play of the game. The hopes are high tonight at Reggie Lewis Junior High.

The dozen aforementioned vocabulary words and the 10 Rules of Basketball are also expressed in verse: Rule No. 1: “In this game of life / your family is the court / and the ball is your heart.” And finally, Alexander incorporates the near-haiku feel of fractured text messages, mainly from the boys’ mother: “7:48 / if you lose. LOL.”

Josh will need all his gifts — of family love, friendship, education, athleticism and poetry — because Alexander has written a year of hard surprises for both brothers, but especially for Josh, whose life lessons pile on quickly.

The biggest surprise of “The Crossover” is that, for all the bells and whistles of a young man’s game, it is most boldly and certainly a book about tenderness. It’s the trigger that causes a rift between the brothers, and what will ultimately heal them. More important, readers should observe the careful way Alexander builds the small moments between the brothers; between the brothers and their father; between father and mother; the way teasing breaks sometimes to anger, then back to teasing again, the way they refuse to let go of each other, regardless. “True champions / learn / to dance / through / the storm,” Josh notes in Basketball Rule No. 10. By then a reader will be dazzled by the bright ways Kwame Alexander has been singing the changes.

THE CROSSOVER

By Kwame Alexander

237 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $16.99. (Middle grade; ages 9 to 12)

Cornelius Eady holds the Miller chair in poetry at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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I love when you read a book about a topic you don’t know much about and the writing just sweeps you away anyway. I love even more when you read three of these back to back.

So recently I read The Crossover , Booked , and Rebound by Kwame Alexander. These are three novels for young readers written in verse about three teenage boys, all of whom are grappling with various struggles: grief, divorce, grades. But there’s also family and first loves and athletics to help them through. The first and the last title listed above are connected, with Rebound being a prequel.

All three of these books are so fantastic. The characters are relatable and charming in their own ways, even with all their flaws and sometimes bad decisions. The dialogue is so strong, as might be expected from free verse poetry. There isn’t much description of what’s happening, with the writing focusing instead on the characters’ words and emotions. It encourages the reader to use context clues to glean the action sometimes, yet at the same time, the scenes involving basketball and soccer are riveting and heart-pounding.

And the themes about dealing with loss, about how to handle crumbling family structures, and how to find new purpose are so strong. These are difficult topics, and while Alexander doesn’t sugarcoat anything, they’re presented in a way that feels real without feeling hopeless. I loved seeing how each main character—Jordan, Nick, and Charlie—dealt with their problems, learning to believe in themselves and lean on their friends and family. They’re all relatable and realistic characters with believable arcs.

Each book is so strong on its own (and the three can be read in any order, probably), but it was a rewarding experience to read Rebound last. Seeing Jordan’s father Charlie in his younger years, seeing him discover his love for basketball and understand the trauma he went through when his own father died, was incredibly moving. It reframes some of the events of The Crossover perfectly, and made me want to reread that one (even though I had only read it a few days prior). It’s a perfect conclusion.

However, Booked was a fantastic read as well. I loved Nick’s journey as he deals with the complex emotions regarding his parents breaking up and his goals to excel in soccer. But I really think The Crossover is my favorite of the three. Librarians know what’s up, because this one hundred percent deserved the Newbury that it received. It’s a book that reads like an instant classic, full of emotions and energy on every page.

In the end, all three of these books are stellar. The writing is excellent, the verse approachable and the stories gripping. I should have read these years ago; I’ve been missing out! Even if you know nothing about basketball or soccer, you’ll still find so much to love about these, because these books—while they involve sports—aren’t really sports books. They’re about life, death, love, loss, and the power of family and friends. They’re amazing.

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THE CROSSOVER

by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 24, 2019

Flashy and engaging with emotional depth—a slam-dunk thrill.

This graphic-novel adaptation of Alexander’s 2015 Newbery Medal winner offers powerful visuals to an already-cherished narrative of teenage black boys navigating the game of life.

The tale follows a year in the life of the Bell family, with Chuck “Da Man” Bell at the helm as he teaches his twin sons, Josh and Jordan, how to follow in his star-studded footsteps. Josh “Filthy McNasty” Bell takes the lead in narration, providing readers with in-depth court play-by-play as he deals with the growing pains of adolescence, balancing brotherhood and his own becoming. Myriad poetic forms appear throughout. A portion embrace rhyme, with a hint of old-school flow recalling hip-hop’s golden era. Veteran comics illustrator Anyabwile brings an expansive range of black-boy emotional expressiveness to the page, accompanied by a striking attention to detail and pop-cultural reference. Just check the fresh barber lines on display or the true-to-life illustrations of beloved athletes and musicians such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, and more. Eschewing the traditional paneled look of the graphic-novel form creates a dynamic flow between the scenes. These are sectioned out into basketball-appropriate quarters and dotted with Chuck’s inspirational Basketball Rules, such as this excerpt of No. 3: “The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun and you will SHINE.” These messages grow ever more resonant as readers approach the climax of this heartwarming story.

Pub Date: Sept. 24, 2019

ISBN: 978-1-328-96001-6

Page Count: 224

Publisher: HMH Books

Review Posted Online: June 15, 2019

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2019

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