The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
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The Crossover
A Newbery Award Winner

Author: Kwame Alexander

Narrator: Jalyn Hall

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 12/13/2022

Synopsis

Streaming series now on Disney+, with executive producers including NBA great LeBron James! This audio is read by series star Jalyn Hall.The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning middle grade bestseller! Basketball and heartache share the court in this slam-dunk novel in verse.“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,” raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell. Thanks to their dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood—he’s got mad beats, too, which help him find his rhythm when it’s all on the line.In this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander, 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.

About Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of 47 books, including Booked; The Brainstormerz; The Mighty Macy; Black Star, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book; J vs. K, an illustrated novel he penned with Jerry Craft; and The Crossover, his Newbery Medal-winning novel turned Emmy® Award-winning Disney+ TV series. He regularly shares his passion for literacy, books and the craft of writing around the world, including Ghana, West Africa, where he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic. A recipient of the 2025 NAACP Image Award, Kwame is the founder of the literacy non-profit One Word at a Time. You can visit him at KwameAlexander.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on May 10, 2021

This graphic novel adaptation is a huge win in my opinion. In the original version, the creativity with spacing the verse on the page was effective in using white space and font size to add drama to the narrative. In this new version, the graphics enhance the verse and push it to a new level. I know......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 26, 2023

I had no idea what to expect when I saw this graphic novel in my local book store. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander is the graphic novelization of his Newberry Medal award winning novel of the same name. Written in a combination of free verse and prose, it tells the story of basketball playing twins......more

Goodreads review by Jolene on November 16, 2019

Dawud Anyabwile's illustrations are beautiful, so I hate to say it, but I think I missed out by reading the graphic novel rather than the original verse structure. I didn't have a sense of the individual poems--of where they started and ended and how they look on the page--so I think some of the mea......more

Goodreads review by Mathew on September 01, 2020

Please see my 5 star review of the original novel in verse here Although I enjoyed this version of Alexander's story it just didn't read as a graphic novel at all to me. This takes nothing from Anyabwile's illustrations and limited colour palette which are excellent but I think that the structure of......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on April 10, 2023

A Very Good YA book written in the style of a poem.......more

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