The Crossover

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The work The Crossover represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Clinton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The Crossover

Statement of responsibility

by Kwame Alexander

Creator

• trueAlexander, Kwame
• Alexander, Kwame

Subject

• trueTwin brothers
• trueSports fiction
• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueAfrican Americans
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Basketball stories
• trueBasketball stories
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBoy basketball players
• Brothers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCoping
• trueFamily relationships
• trueFathers and sons
• Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueMiddle schools
• trueNovels in verse
• Novels in verse
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSeventh-grade boys
• trueSchools
• Twins -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• trueNovels in verse
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSports fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueBasketball stories
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueFirst person narratives

Language

eng

Summary

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health

Member of

• trueCrossover (Kwame Alexander)

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueEmotionally intense

Character

• trueBelievable
• trueCulturally diverse

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2015
• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), Grades 6-9, 2016.
• Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio), Grades 6-8, 2016
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 6-8), 2017.
• Indian Paintbrush Book Award (Wyoming), 2018.
• Iowa Teen Award, 2018.
• Kentucky Bluegrass Award for Grades 6-8, 2016.
• Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award (Pennsylvania Center for the Book), 2015.
• Newbery Medal, 2015.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2017.
• School Library Journal Best Books: Fiction, 2014
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), Intermediate Books, 2017.
• Street Lit Book Award Medal: Emerging Classic, 2016.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2015.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults: Top Ten, 2015.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2015.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: Top Ten, 2015.

Awards note

Newbery Medal, 2015

Cataloging source

BT

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 750
• 750L

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.5.A44

LC item number

Cr 2014

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

750

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 3
• 6

Series statement

Crossover (Kwame Alexander)

Series volume

0001

Target audience

pre adolescent