"Booked" by Kwame Alexander was an excellent book and it is awesome that it is written in a poetic nature. The content of the book at first glance seems to just be about soccer, and I really had no idea what it was going to actually be about. I read the book "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander recently and that is what led me to choose this book. After the first few pages or so, it really seemed like a bland story about a teen having regular problems with parents and enjoying the game of soccer and having a crush on a girl that he was scared to talk to. Finally there comes a point in which the parents of Nick, the narrator and main character of the story tell Nick that they are separating. Throughout the book, this becomes a main topic along with soccer and his crush, and he ends up in the hospital and he thinks that his parents a reconciling, but turns out they are getting divorced. Things do end up going well with his crush as well as other things in his life as well. This story probably strikes home for a lot of readers, because divorce is more and more common and children are left in the middle of it.
Pros:
Amazing book to help develop vocabulary, and there are footnotes defining difficult words on a lot of pages.
The book is very relate-able to youth and adults whose parents went through a divorce process.
Though serious topics are touched on, the book does a good job of keeping things light by adding humor in, as shown below:
Cons:
Takes a little while to get into.
Could be difficult for young readers to understand with the poetry and some strong vocabulary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/books/review/kwame-alexanders-booked.html
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011H55HS6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPEucLQ4pSE
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