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Booked

Booked

Published: 5 May 2016

Paperback / softback, 320 pages

Recommended for age 9+ and 11+

By Kwame Alexander

Published by Andersen Press Ltd

£6.75
£6.75
RRP £7.99

This book features in the Upper KS2 Sports Stadium collection which is part of The Reading Journey

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you... Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, football, family, love, and friendship take centre stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents' break-up, stand up to bullies, and impress the girl of his dreams.

These challenges - which seem even harder than scoring a tie-breaking, game-winning goal - change his life, as well as his best friend's. This energetic novel-in-verse by the poet Kwame Alexander captures all the thrills and setbacks, the action and emotion of a World Cup match.

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In this interview, Kwame Alexander talks about his versen novel, Booked... with occasional guitar accompaniment.

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