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In this middle grade novel-in-verse by the Newbery Medal-winning and Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning author of The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage as 12-year-old Nick learns the power of words when he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate, Coby; and The Mac, a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read.
This electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse by poet Kwame Alexander bends and breaks as it captures all the thrills and setbacks, action and emotion of a World Cup match!
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Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team - a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves.
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Beautifully Written, Unique Storyline, Many Lessons
- By Diana Cherry on 07-02-17
By: Jason Reynolds
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Forget Me Not
- By: Ellie Terry
- Narrated by: Heather Costa, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette's syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees her as she truly is - an interesting person and a good friend.
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VERY disappointing
- By Maddy on 03-15-20
By: Ellie Terry
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Why Fathers Cry at Night
- A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. He explores his own relationships—his difficulties as a newly wedded, 22-year-old father, and the precariousness of his early marriage working in a jazz club with his second wife.
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Loved it.
- By Tonja on 06-01-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Ain't Burned All the Bright
- By: Jason Reynolds
- Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Nile Bullock, Tatum Marylin Hall, and others
- Length: 37 mins
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Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
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Breathing. smiling. reflecting.
- By Sabrina Dent on 03-23-24
By: Jason Reynolds
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He Said, She Said
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Carra Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls has got it made - a full football ride to UMiami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. She says: Football, shmootball. Here's what Claudia Clarke cares about: Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism...the list goes on. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. T-Diddy Smalls and his harem of bimbos.
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Not much to be said.
- By Max Dorisca on 04-29-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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Counting by 7s
- By: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. Willow Chance is a 12-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by sevens. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life...until now.
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I Guess I Am Just Too Old To Enjoy This Book!
- By Kathy in CA on 05-15-20
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Brown Girl Dreaming
- By: Jacqueline Woodson
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.
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Memoir of a childhood, in verse.
- By Adam Shields on 02-18-19
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus
- By: Ann Braden
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. At least there's Lenny, her mom's boyfriend - they all get to live in his nice, clean trailer. At school, Zoey tries to stay under the radar. Her only friend, Fuchsia, has her own issues, and since they're in an entirely different world than the rich kids, it's best if no one notices them. Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus.
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An Amazing Book
- By Prime user on 08-03-20
By: Ann Braden
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Refugee
- By: Alan Gratz
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, Assaf Cohen
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe.
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Intended for 5-8th graders, but it is good for adults too
- By LJK on 12-21-17
By: Alan Gratz
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Planet Middle School
- By: Nikki Grimes
- Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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New York Times best-selling author Nikki Grimes has received numerous accolades for her writing, including the Coretta Scott King Award. In Planet Middle School, 12-year-old Joylin Johnson is satisfied with her life. Everything seems pretty simple: a nice, relaxed game of basketball with the boys is all she needs to keep her happy. But it all changes when her best girlfriend starts flirting with her best guy friend.
By: Nikki Grimes
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The Lions of Little Rock
- By: Kristin Levine
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Everything’s changing for twelve-year-old Marlee. Her brother’s gone off to college and her sister’s moved out of the room they’ve shared since Marlee was born. To Marlee, it feels like her whole world’s falling apart. On top of all that, she’s starting middle school and has to break in new teachers - teachers who don’t yet know Marlee doesn’t talk. At least not until she meets Liz, the new girl at school.
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great
- By Rachel on 02-02-15
By: Kristin Levine
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- LL
- 04-25-19
This book is great!
I teach 6th grade in Texas and my students as well as myself enjoyed this book! Hopefully, there will be a sequel to "Booked." The author writes in a way that catches you from the start. May God continue to bless you and your writing, Mr. Alexander.
Blessings,
L. Lewis
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- Rachael Street
- 03-11-18
Awesome!
My 9-year old son introduced me to this book! He got it from the school library and couldn't put it down! He suggested that we got the audible version so I obliged! Awesome book!
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- Katie
- 02-12-20
nice
mmm yes very good book mmm yes good very good yes but yes much good
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- Yolonda Simon
- 12-10-22
Awesome read!
This book that was read by Kwame Alexander should be available for all middle school students in general, but boys in particular! I especially like the fact that a smart boy likes to read and everyone knew, AND that the teachers were so encouraging.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-17
a solid book
it had a slow start but the book turned out interesting as the story progressed
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- Molly
- 09-18-19
Best
This book was great, I read it because Kwame Alexander is my favorite author.
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- Adam Shields
- 02-18-22
I like the audio versions of novels in verse.
I have grown to enjoy novels in verse. Kwame Alexander has been the author of most of them, but also the memoir in verse Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. I need to seek out some other authors. I mostly listen to these as audiobooks because hearing them read rightly feels like the most authentic choice. But I also try to read enough of them in print to get a sense of the poetic style. I likely should fully read them in print and fully listen to them because there are often hidden aspects of the verse in the print layout. And their audio often has a better orientation to the intention of the author's writing than what I would do for myself.
My wife is teaching a unit on figurative language to 5th graders right now, and she is using the lyrics of songs from Encanto. The students know all the songs, and they can analyze the lyrics differently than they would if they were coming at poetry without any history. At the same time, our understanding of the lyrics is influenced by the movie's visuals. She told me last night that there were multiple arguments about whether one line or another was figurative or literal or hyperbolic or some other characteristic. She would have to bracket the conversations by asking whether the line abstracted from the movie is an idiom or tends to be used in a hyperbolic way, and then ask, "Was there actually any clouds in the sky? Then he said there were no clouds in the sky?" The artists were often very literal in their representation of the lyrics, likely more literal than Lin Manuel Miranda may have intended.
I bring this up because one of the complaints I have heard is that either kids are not interested in poetry or cannot really understand the lyrical depth of poetry. Anyone that had been a teen pouring over lyrics trying to understand exactly what they were saying and what it means knows that this isn't true. Kids do get poetry, or at least they can get poetry if taught well, and it is interesting for them.
Like many of these novels in verse, there are a lot of pages, but the audio is pretty short. This one was 326 pages but only 2 hours and 36 minutes in audiobook. Which shows how much space is on the page. That sparseness is part of what I like. There is often a density to the lines that says more than one thing at a time. That being said, Kwame Alexander is writing this as a middle-grade book to get boys more interested in reading. So you must come into the book expecting a middle-grade novel.
Nick is an eighth-grader who loves soccer. He and his best friend Coby excel at soccer, but their whole lives are not consumed by it. Nick's father is a professor who has written a dictionary of unique words, and part of what Nick hates about the world is that he has to read a few pages every night. He learns despite himself, but he resents the obligation. Nick's mom is a horse trainer who has been unemployed since they moved into the city for his Dad's job. While his Dad may require him to read, his mom requires him to go to an etiquette class, which Nick also resents, but at least it has April, Nick's crush.
April thinks his father is cool because her book club read his dictionary. And eventually, she thinks his mother is cool because she is so good with horses. Nick (and April) come to find that their own families may be more interesting than what they had previously understood.
There is also a librarian who used to be a rap producer that all the kids love. And there are two bullies, a health crisis, and the potential of his parent's divorce. But, as an adult, my largest complaint about most middle-grade books is that they are not in-depth enough. I want more length and plot. But this is the right length for the target audience, and the plot doesn't feel too thin.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-13-23
this is amazing
really good school eazy book i reccomend for peouple. it wasnt long nice book for kids
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- TAMALA
- 07-21-18
Amazing
This book was beyond amazing. 😁
EVERYONE MUST READ IT!!! Oh my gosh it was so amazing
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- Natasha Tilley
- 04-26-16
best book ever
it was really good im glad i bought it i loved how he overcome his fears
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