Kwame Alexander

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you...Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover,...

The #1 New York Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing "At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting" — Lupita Nyong'o Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of...

Set during the turbulent segregation era, Kwame Alexander weaves a spellbinding story of struggle, determination, and the unflappable faith of an American family. Twelve-year-old Charley is set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional baseball, even if that’s...