Booked kwame alexander spine of book12/27/2023 ![]() ![]() “Some of the boys never read and will tell you in a minute, ‘I hate to read,’” she said. On restroom breaks, Williams purposely took her 7th and 8th grade summer school students by the locker project, so they’d see it and ask questions. Often, the most unmotivated students are the ones winding up in summer school. School starts Thursday.īut early indicators show an enthusiasm Williams and Butera are eager to build on. Most of the school’s 1,200-plus students - about 400 of whom are 8th graders - have yet to see the final transformation of the English Language Arts hallway into a bright, bigger-than-life lineup of book spines. The project put colorful paint and 189 book titles on as many unused lockers that line a hallway alongside four classrooms (each side) at Biloxi Junior High - about the length of a football field, Williams estimated. ![]() Mind-sparking was.Īnd if that spark becomes an ember that fires a love of books in even their most recalcitrant readers? Blaze of glory and mission accomplished. Mind-blowing wasn’t exactly the mission here. TV and social media sharing of the project completed just this summer has hit these high notes: a feature in the New York Public Library newsletter, contacts from Japan and Italy for interviews outreach from a Young Adult fiction writer about Skyping with students an “I love this!” tweet from Chelsea Clinton. In spite of his hate of words, Nick's superior vocabulary and tendency for humor are constantly drawing him into hilarious episodes with teachers and setting him up for confrontations with the school bullies.That’s what reaction to The Avenue of Literature - that turned drab lockers into fab faux “bookshelves” in a Biloxi Junior High hallway - has done to the project’s creators, 8th grade English Language Arts teachers Elizabeth Williams and Stacey Butera. As the family stress mounts, Nick finds relief from words and family with his soccer pal, Coby, and his budding crush on the girl of his dreams, April. Nick's mother is a horse trainer who has been forced to move to the University city where she can no longer work. Nick is pushed by his father study daily from his dictionary. This avid soccer fan and player, is the son of a University Professor that has written a dictionary of unusual words. Nick Hall, the main character, hates words. Once again, Kwame Alexander has outdone himself with his wonderful use of words and unique poetry style, to write a book about the coming of age of an eighth grade boy. wrote it so well and that it’s the second book in the series. The boy loves words and rap, and I really loved him and his story and that K. Fraud then gets his friend the school librarian’s “Freedom” box because the guy is going down a different bend in his river and when he opens it, I mean wow! Then he learns enough Taekwando to get back at the bullies who stole his bike and beat him up and of course this is after he gets out of the hospital for another matter and can’t go to New York or Dalles to play soccer with his team and his best friend and he has to see a psychologist for being so sad he couldn’t go and he names him Dr. BOOKED is a book that will make you laugh and cheer! It’s the story of a 12-year-old boy whose parents are breaking up and whose dad makes him read the dictionary to improve his vocabulary which HE does and IT does and it so impresses a girl he likes that she becomes his girlfriend despite her dad’s being a cop and she bringing her entire book club to his house for a date and he likes it and his mom taking them horseback riding which the girl likes even though it’s her first time in a saddle. ![]()
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