Booked
- ISBN-10
- 1448188423
- ISBN-13
- 9781448188420
- Series
- Booked
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-05
- Publisher
- Andersen Press Limited
- Author
- Kwame Alexander
Description
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... Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, football, family, love, and friendship take centre stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents’ break-up, stand up to bullies, and impress the girl of his dreams. These challenges – which seem even harder than scoring a tie-breaking, game-winning goal – change his life, as well as his best friend’s. This energetic novel-in-verse by the poet Kwame Alexander captures all the thrills and setbacks, the action and emotion of a World Cup match.
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- 2019-04-30
- 240 pages
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