Booked
by: Kwame Alexander
Grades 3-5
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.
by: Kwame Alexander
Grades 3-5
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.
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Activity 1
Research the game of Soccer and the different soccer terms that are used in the book (FIFA, the World Cup, Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup.) |
Activity 2
Scavenger Hunt – Using the attached sheet, please find out all the information about the production of this book as asked in the sheet. All of the answer can be found in the hard copy of the book. 
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Activity 3
Langston Hughes. is referenced on pg. 39. READ the next page and learn more of his bio from the www.poets.org web site. Do you think there could be a real school named after him? LOOK on the internet and see if you can find any. If you find some, write them here, and include the city and state. LIST four of the places Langston Hughes lived. List some of the jobs he held in his lifetime.
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