The crossover

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The work The crossover represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. 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

Subject

• Brothers -- Fiction
• trueAfrican Americans
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Basketball -- Fiction
• Basketball stories
• trueBoy basketball players
• Brothers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCoping
• trueFamily relationships
• trueFathers and sons
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
• trueMiddle schools
• Novels in verse
• trueSchools
• trueSeventh-grade boys
• trueTwin brothers
• Twins -- Fiction
• Twins -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction

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

• trueEmotionally intense
• trueMoving

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.
• Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2020.
• 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.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.5.A44

LC item number

Cr 2014

Literary form

fiction

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

• 5
• 8

Reading level

4.3.

Series statement

Crossover (Kwame Alexander)

Series volume

0001

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

pre adolescent