Kwame Alexander
1) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
3) Solo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
4) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover volume 0.5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
Hoop kings soar / in kicks with wings. / Game so sweet / it's like bee sings. / (OUCH!) / He swished you / in your face. / Stung you like / a can of mace. / These boys so fly / they're outta SPACE! / Before he's Chuck "Da Man" Bell, proud father of Jordan and Josh Bell, Charlie is...
5) Swing
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest...
6) Surf's up
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 310L
Language
English
Description
"Surf's up! Not yet, Dude! Books are boring! Not this one! Bro and Dude have very different ideas about how to spend the day at the beach. But as Bro continues to gasp and cheer as he reads his book (Moby Dick), Dude can't help but get curious. Before you can shout 'Surf's up!' both frogs are sharing the same adventure, that is, until they get to the beach"--Excerpt from Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down."--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
"When a popular football 'playa' and ladies man and the smartest girl in school lead a school protest, sparks fly as their social media-aided revolution grows"--
Author
Series
[Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...
11) El crossover
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
Español
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time