Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook. This article was originally published in the April 2016 issue of BookPage. To pick up Booked is to find yourself turning page after page, swept along as Nick spills out his story.
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While eschewing the eclectic verse structures and concrete poetry in exchange for more traditional free verse (with a sprinkling of informative and very funny footnotes), Alexander recaptures the magic of The Crossoverand delivers a powerful story that will leave the reader breathless, right to the very end. ISBN: 9781783444656 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 223 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 'An obvious love of words, and the way they flow together and create their own rhythm, makes Alexanders work somewhat irresistible.
In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexanders Newbery winner The. On top of everything else, his mom is leaving Nick and his dad to pursue her dream of training racehorses.įilled with rich, brilliant language and sharp, staccato verse that drives the reader forward, Booked handles difficult and painful realities with the ease of a superstar on the soccer field. Shop Barnes & Noble Booked: The Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander online at. If that’s not bad enough, Nick is being bullied on a regular basis, and he’s finding it harder than he hoped to talk to April, the girl of his dreams. Nick is a talented soccer player and just made the A team for his travel soccer club-but his best friend, Coby, didn’t. Though immersed in books and language at home, Nick’s passion lies somewhere else: the soccer field. His books include And Then You Know: New and Selected Poems, Crush: Love Poems, Family Pictures. His father is obsessed with them and makes Nick read every day from Weird and Wonderful Words, a dictionary that he wrote. Kwame Alexander is a poet, childrens book author, playwright, producer, speaker, and performer. Average president knows twice that.” In Booked, the new novel-in-verse by Newbery Award winner Kwame Alexander, 12-year-old Nick knows all about words. Hardcover 10.49 148 Used from 1.30 38 New from 6.19 4 Collectible from 12.95 Paperback 8.29 104 Used from 1.38 29 New from 6.50 Audio CD 12.49 1 Used from 12.00 2 New from 12.
“The average person knows about twelve thousand words.
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