Booked, Kwame Alexander
Booked, Kwame Alexander
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Booked

Author: Kwame Alexander

Narrator: Kwame Alexander

Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/05/2016

Synopsis

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 …

Nobody can stop Nick Hall—he’s a star on the soccer team, cruising in school and getting ready to ask out the girl of his dreams. But then a bombshell announcement shatters his world.

Follow Nick’s next moves in this electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse by Kwame Alexander that bends and breaks as it captures all the thrills and setbacks, action and emotion, of a World Cup match!

About Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander is a poet, an educator, and the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty-five books, including his Newbery Medal–winning middle grade novel The Crossover. Some of his other works include Booked, which was longlisted for the National Book Award; The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life; Swing; the picture books How to Read a Book and How to Write a Poem (coauthored with Deanna Nikaido), both illustrated by Melissa Sweet; and The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. He is a regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition, currently serving as their poet ambassador. He lives in Virginia with his family. Visit his website at kwamealexander.com. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristen on May 18, 2017

Warning: This review is really just going to be me gushing profusely at the awesomeness that is this book. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. I loved Crossover, and have since pushed it into the hands of nearly every student who enters my library...and I will now be doing the same with Booked.......more

Goodreads review by audrey on March 01, 2018

"Booked" was poetry. A lot of poetry. This book was talking about Nicholas Hall, a boy in eighth grade who has a life that's quite similar like everyone else's. He explains the ups and downs through a period of time. For me, I really don't believe that I have anything much in common with Nicholas, hi......more

Goodreads review by Colby on April 13, 2016

I loved Kwame's Newbery Medal winning book The Crossover, and I liked this one even more.......more

Goodreads review by Beth on November 30, 2015

Just like The Crossover does with basketball, soccer circumvents what Booked is really about: family relationships, this time the main character Nick is dealing with his parent's impending divorce and a strained relationship with his parents, particularly his father. While it doesn't have the same b......more

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