At six feet tall and with the guidance of their legendary basketball player father, Charles (Chuck) “Da Man” Bell, Josh and Jordan are the stars of their basketball team. 12-year-old African American Josh Bell narrates The Crossover in verse his stories and rhymes dribble down the page in much the same way he and his twin brother, Jordan, dribble the ball down the basketball court. Rebound, a prequel to The Crossover, was published in 2018. The Crossover, by award-winning children’s book author and poet Kwame Alexander, was published in 2014 and won the 2015 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award Honor for children’s literature.
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