Crossover: The Crossover : A Newbery Award Winner (Paperback)

from rabidgummibear

This book is amazing. I hate basketball, but I loved this book.The verses are insane and it all falls together so quickly.I ended with tears in my eyes and amazed it was over so quickly.Can't recommend this enough to anyone looking for a good different read.

from Iudita

This was my second experience at reading a book in free verse (Brown Girl Dreaming) and I have loved it both times. This was an incredible book. Great story, wonderful characters and absolutely incredible use of language. I was so impressed at the way the author was able to say so much with so fe...

from ChristianR

The 2015 Newbery Award winner, and well deserved. Written in prose. Basketball is life for Josh, his twin Jordan and their father, a former NBA player. It all seems so simple until Jordan gets a girlfriend, Josh feels left out, and their Dad starts to show signs of heart trouble, even though he b...

from ewyatt

A novel in verse explores the middle school basketball season and lives of two star players and twin brothers. Their dad is Da Man, a former professional baller who has lots of love for his family and health problems he is denying. The brothers feel a rift when JB has his first girlfriend and Jos...

from electrascaife

A fantastic middle grade novel in free verse about twin brothers and their changing lives both on and off the basketball court. It's beautifully done, with varying methods of verse that reflect the situations and emotions as they change throughout, and with a story that grabs you right from the b...