Monday, December 24, 2018

SWING by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess


Swing
Best friends Noah and Walt have plans. Those plans include earning spots on the varsity baseball team and being cool. Girlfriends would be nice, too.

When the baseball team roster is posted, Noah and Walt have not been chosen for the fourth year in a row. That doesn't stop Walt. He starts a workout routine that involves frequent trips to the batting cage. Unfortunately, the nickname he chooses for himself, Swing, doesn't prove to be true when it comes to actually hitting the ball.

Secretly, Noah has another goal. He wants to hookup with Sam, the girl who has been his friend since third grade. Noah would like to take their relationship past friendship, but that means asking her to ditch the popular baseball star who is her current boyfriend.

Inspired by some old love letters he finds in a thrift store handbag, Noah starts creating love letters for Sam. His romantic intensions become known when Walt secretly slips Sam one of the letters without Noah's knowledge. Now Noah must decide if he has the nerve to reveal himself as the author.

Author Kwame Alexander teams up again with poet/artist Mary Rand Hess to create this unique love story. Readers of their previous collaboration SOLO will be thrilled to see this new novel in verse. Readers will root for Noah and Walt as their story unfolds, and as is typical with Alexander's books, it isn't all fun and games.

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