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Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess

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"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest since third grade, Sam, has him firmly in the friend zone. Noah soon finds himself navigating the worlds of jazz, batting cages, the strange advice of Walt's Dairy Queen-employed cousin, as well as Walt's own perceptions of what is actually cool. Status quo seems inevitable until Noah stumbles on a stash of old love letters. Each page contains the words he's always wanted to say to Sam, and he begins secretly creating artwork using the lines that speak his heart. But when his private artwork becomes public, Noah has a decision to make: continue his life in the dugout and possibly lose the girl forever, or take a swing and make his voice heard? At the same time, numerous American flags are being left around town. While some think it's a harmless prank and others see it as a form of peaceful protest, Noah can't shake the feeling something bigger is happening to his community. Especially after he witnesses events that hint divides and prejudices run deeper than he realized. As the personal and social tensions increase around them, Noah and Walt must decide what is really true when it comes to love, friendship, sacrifice, and fate."--
Language
eng
Work
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Extent
448 pages
Isbn
9781536461732
Instance
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Swing
Title
Swing
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Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
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Contributor
Author
Illustrator
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Language
eng
Summary
"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest since third grade, Sam, has him firmly in the friend zone. Noah soon finds himself navigating the worlds of jazz, batting cages, the strange advice of Walt's Dairy Queen-employed cousin, as well as Walt's own perceptions of what is actually cool. Status quo seems inevitable until Noah stumbles on a stash of old love letters. Each page contains the words he's always wanted to say to Sam, and he begins secretly creating artwork using the lines that speak his heart. But when his private artwork becomes public, Noah has a decision to make: continue his life in the dugout and possibly lose the girl forever, or take a swing and make his voice heard? At the same time, numerous American flags are being left around town. While some think it's a harmless prank and others see it as a form of peaceful protest, Noah can't shake the feeling something bigger is happening to his community. Especially after he witnesses events that hint divides and prejudices run deeper than he realized. As the personal and social tensions increase around them, Noah and Walt must decide what is really true when it comes to love, friendship, sacrifice, and fate."--
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Alexander, Kwame
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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Hess, Mary Rand
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  • Teenagers
  • Best friends
  • African Americans
  • High schools
  • Friendship
  • Baseball players
  • Letters
  • Best friends
  • African Americans
  • High schools
  • Friendship
  • Baseball
  • Letters
  • Adolescents
  • Amis
  • Noirs américains
  • Écoles secondaires
  • Amitié
  • Joueurs de base-ball
  • Lettres (Genre littéraire)
  • YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • Teenagers
  • High schools
  • Baseball players
  • African Americans
  • Baseball stories
  • Best friends
  • Friendship
  • Letters
  • Novels in verse
  • Friendship
  • African Americans
  • Baseball
  • Letters
  • Friendship
  • African Americans
  • Baseball
  • Letters
Target audience
adolescent
Label
Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1048615401
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
448 pages
Isbn
9781536461732
Lccn
2018030417
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
025986761912
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), 1 unnumbered page of plates
System control number
(OCoLC)1048615401
Label
Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1048615401
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
448 pages
Isbn
9781536461732
Lccn
2018030417
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
025986761912
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), 1 unnumbered page of plates
System control number
(OCoLC)1048615401

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