In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander's Newbery winner The Crossover,&#160;soccer, family, love, and friendship&#160;take center stage. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Longlist nominee, now in a graphic novel edition featuring art from Dawud Anyabwile.Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.&#160;Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read.&#160;&#160;This electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse bends and breaks as it captures all the thrills and setbacks, action and emotion of a World Cup match."A novel about a soccer-obsessed tween boy written entirely in verse? In a word, yes. Kwame Alexander has the magic to pull off this unlikely feat, both as a poet and as a storyteller. " &#8212;The Chicago TribuneCan&#8217;t nobody stop youCan&#8217;t nobody cop you&#8230;

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I Rise

From the celebrated author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan, comes another humorous and poignant early middle grade novel. My Life Begins! explores how life begins for Jacob when his triplet sisters are born, and how siblings get to know each other as time, and love, evolve.Jacob is nine years old when his life changes.He wants a litter of puppies. But instead his parents have a different surprise. Jacob will be an older brother soon. And there won&#8217;t be only one new baby. There will be three! When the triplets are born, Jacob thinks puppies are cuter. The babies look identical to him and he gives them a name: &#8220;the Trips.&#8221;For a school science project, Jacob decides to study the Trips. It feels like magic as they begin to smile, talk, and grow. Slowly, he gets to know each of them. They call his mother &#8220;Mama&#8221; and his father &#8220;Da.&#8221; But what will they call him? One day, one of the Trips calls him &#8220;Jay.&#8221;As each of the triplets become unique and more special with each day, Jacob starts to wonder if &#8220;the Trips&#8221; is still a good name for them. They aren&#8217;t puppies, or a bunch of bananas, and they aren&#8217;t just &#8220;the Trips&#8221; anymore. What should he call them that will show what they mean to him? Can he figure out their &#8220;forever name?&#8221; And will he ever get a puppy?

My Life Begins!

A girl and her puppy face down the end of the world&#8212;which the puppy&#8217;s partly responsible for&#8212;in this middle grade story from acclaimed author Greg van Eekhout, perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and&#160;J.C. Cervantes.When Mott finds a puppy abandoned in a recycling bin, she&#8217;s ready to do everything she can to protect him. What she doesn&#8217;t realize, however, is that this is the legendary wolf Fenris, who&#8217;s prophesied to bring about the end of the world by eating the moon.Now Mott has found herself in charge of making sure the hungry pup&#8212;who&#8217;s busy munching on lampposts, cars, and water towers&#8212;doesn&#8217;t see all of California as an appetizer, while also hiding him from the Norse gods who are hot on his trail, determined to see the prophecy come true.Mott vows to protect Fenris, rescue him from his destiny,&#160;and&#160;prevent the world from ending. But will she be able to keep her promise? Or has she bitten off more than she can chew?

Fenris & Mott

The paperback edition of the novel based on the groundbreaking musical by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish, 13, a story about friendship, fitting in, and what it means to turn thirteen. Soon to be a movie-musical streaming on Netflix!&#8220;No one said becoming a man was easy."Evan didn&#8217;t expect relevant life advice from Rabbi Weiner, who looks so old that he must have gone to yeshiva with Moses. But wondering what it means to become a man is the least of Evan&#8217;s problems.After being uprooted right before his thirteen birthday from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, he&#8217;s more focused on using this fresh start to find the right friends to invite to his bar mitzvah. Because this is his chance to get in with the popular kids&#8212;the cool football players and pretty cheerleaders.But it&#8217;s the weird kids who welcome him, like his nerdy neighbor Patrice and Archie, whose crutches and muscular dystrophy make him an easy target for bullying. Evan doesn&#8217;t want to be laughed at for being different. He can pretend to be like the cool kids; he&#8217;s sure he can.But if you spend all your time pretending to be someone else, who do you become?In this story of acceptance and friendship, Evan prepares for his bar mitzvah, grapples with his father&#8217;s affair, and learns from his rabbi, all the while presented with various images of what it means to be a man. While he struggles to fit in with the popular boys at school, he eventually learns that being cool is not as important as being a good friend&#8212;and a good person.With relatable humor and accessible language, and at a consumable length, this book is perfect for all tweens and especially boys looking for a relatable read.Netflix has announced an adaptation of the Broadway musical that inspired 13: A Novel. Jason Robert Brown will be returning to compose new music for the show, and the cast includes Rhea Perlman, Josh Peck, Debra Messing, and Peter Hermann.

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