When the novel reaches the fourth quarter, Josh and his family face the consequences of that neglect when Chuck suffers a heart attack while driving to the hoop. Chuck Bell has been neglecting his health despite his wife’s pleas and his family history of heart disease. Through Josh’s words, we learn about basketball lingo, middle school crushes, family loyalty, and fierce competitiveness.īut this book is not just about free throw battles in the driveway and pick-up games in the local gym. Josh serves as the narrator for the novel with brash rhymes that match his bravado and tender rhymes that touch the heart. There’s lots of good-natured taunting between the brothers, but when it is game time, they are all business, guided by the Basketball Rules of their ex-pro ballplayer father, Chuck “Da Man” Bell. They anchor their school team with Josh (aka Filthy McNasty) as forward and Jordan (aka JB) as shooting guard.
Josh and Jordan are identical twin 12-year old boys who don’t just love basketball – they live basketball. OH, WOW – DID YOU SEE THAT NASTY CROSSOVER? Kwame Alexander weaves all these all elements together in his Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning novel in verse, The Crossover.
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