Description:
Busboys and Poets Books
welcomes author Kwame Alexander
to sign and discuss, The Crossover
Publisher weekly:
Josh Bell, known on and off the court by the nickname Filthy McNasty,
doesn?t lack self-confidence, but neither does he lack the skills
to back up his own mental in-game commentary: ?I rise like a Learjet?/
seventh-graders aren?t supposed to dunk./ But guess what?/ I
snatch the ball out of the air and/ SLAM!/ YAM! IN YOUR MUG!? Josh is
sure that he and his twin brother, JB, are going pro, following in
the footsteps of their father, who played professional ball in
Europe. But Alexander (He Said, She Said) drops hints that Josh?s
trajectory may be headed back toward Earth: his relationship with
JB is strained by a new girl at school, and the boys? father
health is in increasingly shaky territory. The poems dodge and
weave with the speed of a point guard driving for the basket,
mixing basketball action with vocabulary-themed poems, newspaper
clippings, and Josh?s sincere first-person accounts that swing
from moments of swagger-worthy triumph to profound pain.
Co-sponsored by:
Busboys and Poets
Writopia Lab
Urban Leadership Institute
Pan Hellenic Council
Jack and Jill
