This is the prequel to Kwame Alexander’s masterful and Newbery prize-winning basketball verse novel The Crossover (and it’s fine to read the two in either order).Īlso written in verse, Rebound is funny, moving and full of great ideas on how to live your life – and almost impossible not to read in one sitting. Here, his cousin Roxie introduces him to basketball, his grandad introduces him to hard work and jazz, and things begin to change. It seems like nothing can make him feel any joy in life now and that nothing ever will – not even his lovely best friends CJ (Crystal) and Skinny.Īfter he gets into a spot of trouble, his mum decides to send him to spend the summer with his paternal grandparents a few hours drive away. Book Review: ALONE, by Megan E.It’s 1988 and Charlie Bell (later to become Chuck ‘Da Man’ Bell) is 12 years old and going through the hardest time in his life after his dad dies from a stroke.Book Review: REBOUND by Kwame Alexander.Allen, loves to read just like me! She encourages me to be the best reader I can be.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.įollow Search for: Follow us on Twitter My Tweets Recent Posts I like drawing, playing with my family, listening to music, kayaking, hiking, swimming and being in nature. I play lacrosse, basketball and flag football. I love to read, especially graphic novels and books about sports. What’s up? My name is Nathan and I am 10 years old and in 5th grade. I would recommend this book to you, to your friends and to everybody because it has a lot of noticeable life lessons and it is a really good book. The book made me feel the ups and downs the characters were feeling. Sometimes in the book there were cool graphic novel illustrations all about basketball. I really enjoyed reading this book because I loved the way it was written like poetry. Basketball helps Charlie get through his worries and “find his smile again”. Then he meets his cousin Roxie who teaches him how to play basketball. Charlie starts making some bad choices and he gets sent to his grandparent’s house for the summer to “find his smile again”. Charlie is a normal kid and then something happens to his dad and all that changes. Rebound is set when Charlie was a kid and he went through some tough times. The story is about Charlie Bell who is the dad in The Crossover.

Rebound by Kwame Alexander is a prequel to T he Crossover.

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