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Recipient of the 2015 Newbery Medal and the 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award, Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover is a novel-in-verse about twin brothers who are basketball stars: “kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest ballers cry.” A New York Times review describes the book as a “beautifully measured novel of life and lines,” which “for all the bells and whistles of a young man’s game … is most boldly and certainly a book about tenderness.” Alexander is a writer and literacy activist and the author of 18 books.