Ideas & Inspiration for Booked
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From the author’s website
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…
Nick Hall lives and breathes soccer. But when he’s sidelined by an injury, his word-loving father takes the opportunity to try to instill a love of reading into his reluctant son. Nick’s mother leaves for a job out of state, he and his best friend hit the skids, he’s dealing with a bully, and on top of all of that, he has to navigate the highs and lows of a first crush.
With an impressive array of poetry styles—free verse, acrostics, haiku—and the pacing of a soccer match—at times leisurely and thoughtful, at others frenetic and heart-stopping— Booked(HMH BYR: April 5, 2016) is both poetry for Lionel Messi fanatics and a sports novel for those more likely to memorize a sonnet than kick a soccer ball. But what it is—at its rhythmic, loving heart—is a novel about a father and son, family and friendship, and the true power that words can have on and off the page.
Title-specific resources for your Book to Art Club:
Booked Educator’s Guide from the publisher and teachingbooks.net
Q & A from the author’s website
Booked Pinterest Page
Awards
Booklist 2016 Top 10 Books for Youth, Contemporary Middle-Grade Novels & Sports
Parents’ Choice Awards, Fiction Gold, Spring 2016
The Kirkus Prize 2016 Nominee, Young Readers
National Book Awards: Young People’s Literature, 2016 Longlist
ALA Notable Books for Children Nominee–Summer 2016, Fiction
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2016, Middle-Grade
NCTE Notable Poetry List 2017, Verse Novels
Booklist 2016 Lasting Connections, Language Arts
ALSC Notable Children’s Books 2017, Older Readers
YALSA 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adults
YALSA 2017 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Fiction
Brightly, 16 of the Most Exciting Middle Grade Books to Read in 2016
CSMCL Best Multicultural Books of 2016
2016 Cybils Finalist, Poetry
ILA Young Adults’ Choices 2017 Reading List*
Children’s Literature Assembly, 2017 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award
About the suggested projects:
Booked is a poetry-laced, soccer and vocabulary themed coming of age story. Invent projects influenced by new vocabulary, varying styles of poetry and soccer.