The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) by Ric.

This was my first book by Kwame Alexander and it was very interesting, but I do wish that it had continued. His books include And Then You Know: New and Selected Poems.

Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsu. The rock and roll dances between these pages. 1 About the author arrowforward Kwame Alexander is a poet, childrens book author, playwright, producer, speaker, and performer.

Pax by Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illustrations).

Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Ozge S.

I see on my labels/tags that I usually use novel-in-verse. If I shoot this review over the goal or you think it is ragabash, that's why. I'm sure the author is doing more with the verses than I can tell but I'm on a break away - I have a parent waiting for this book at the circulation desk and I'm trying to write this as fast as I can. Self-realization which is Nick's character arc in the story. The end doesn't tell the reader what was in the mysterious dragonfly box. When things fall apart, the rapping librarian hooks Nick onto reading and a book club where he discovers books help him articulate what he's going through in his life at the moment (and win the girl of his dreams). Cody is his soccer friend who he joke-brags with they are on rival soccer teams and will play each other in a prestigious tournament. When he expresses how upset he is he finds the power of words to bring his mom back and find some equilibrium in a rough time. His mom and dad are splitting up and he goes through grief as his athletic mom leaves to train horses in Kentucky.

Although shy and scared of girls, his words come through for him in the end. He uses words in a clever way to charm her on to Team Nick before using the same technique to get a girlfriend. Twelve-year-old Nick Hall daydreams in class getting the teacher's unwanted attention.

This story might leave you with 'onomatophobia', but it sure is a heck-of-alot of fun. Coming in at over 300 pages, the novel has the narrative heft of a work half that. If he didn't he wouldn't fling around words like 'limerence,' 'codswallop,' or 'ragabash'. The story and characters remain closer to sketches than to fleshed-out people. He says he hates words since his dad is a professor and 'verbomaniac' who has written a dictionary he's making Nick memorize. Except the sport takes back seat to the power of words as Nick Hall learns to use them against teachers, parents, wooing a girl, and friends at school. While 'Crossover,' the 2015 Newbery Winner was on basketball this one is on soccer. Kwame Alexander can pound out images and rhythms that will make you beat through the pages like a drummer. This book-in-verse (or is it verse-in-book? novel-in-verse? or a novel inverse? or inverse novel? I shouldn't be writing a book review last crazy week of school) about a boy who loves soccer and is dealing with the divorce of his parents.

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