![]() Learn more at Alexander’s official website. He conducts creative writing workshops in middle and high schools, often reaching more than five hundred students monthly. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, including Rebound, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, The Crossover, winner of the Newbery. A regular speaker and workshop presenter at conferences in the U.S., he also travels the world planting seeds of literary love (Brazil, Italy, France, and Turkey). Kwame Alexander is a poet, children's book author, playwright, producer, public speaker, performer, and winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal for his novel-in-verse, The Crossover. ![]() He is the writer and executive producer of he Crossover TV series on Disney plus.Īlexander believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through his Book-in-a-Day literacy program which has created more than 3,000 student authors at 69 schools across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. In this graphic novel version of Booked, the follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning novel The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center. In 2018, he founded the publishing imprint Versify, and opened the Barbara E. Written with old-fashioned flair, this fast-paced book is not for the squeamish: the Baudelaire. 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. Kwame Alexanders novel Booked, follows on from the heels of his debut, as he once again tells a poetic sports tale in the backdrop of teenage angst. ![]() He shares this dream with his best friend Coby, who is Singaporean and Ghanaian and possesses the same passion. It’s all he ever dreams about: in class, on the field, and at home. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times bestselling author of 35 books, including Swing, Becoming Muhammed Ali, co-authored with James Patterson, Booked, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, Rebound, which was shortlisted for prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, The Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor-winning picture book, The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and, his Newbery medal-winning middle grade novel, The Crossover.Ī regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. by Kwame Alexander illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. Booked by Kwame Alexander Nicholas Hall lives and breathes soccer.
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