The Resource Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
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The item Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest since third grade, Sam, has him firmly in the friend zone. Noah soon finds himself navigating the worlds of jazz, batting cages, the strange advice of Walt's Dairy Queen-employed cousin, as well as Walt's own perceptions of what is actually cool. Status quo seems inevitable until Noah stumbles on a stash of old love letters. Each page contains the words he's always wanted to say to Sam, and he begins secretly creating artwork using the lines that speak his heart. But when his private artwork becomes public, Noah has a decision to make: continue his life in the dugout and possibly lose the girl forever, or take a swing and make his voice heard? At the same time, numerous American flags are being left around town. While some think it's a harmless prank and others see it as a form of peaceful protest, Noah can't shake the feeling something bigger is happening to his community. Especially after he witnesses events that hint divides and prejudices run deeper than he realized. As the personal and social tensions increase around them, Noah and Walt must decide what is really true when it comes to love, friendship, sacrifice, and fate."--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Swing
- Title
- Swing
- Statement of responsibility
- Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
- Subject
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- Baseball stories
- Best friends -- Fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Fiction
- Letters -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- Novels in verse
- Young adult fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Baseball -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest since third grade, Sam, has him firmly in the friend zone. Noah soon finds himself navigating the worlds of jazz, batting cages, the strange advice of Walt's Dairy Queen-employed cousin, as well as Walt's own perceptions of what is actually cool. Status quo seems inevitable until Noah stumbles on a stash of old love letters. Each page contains the words he's always wanted to say to Sam, and he begins secretly creating artwork using the lines that speak his heart. But when his private artwork becomes public, Noah has a decision to make: continue his life in the dugout and possibly lose the girl forever, or take a swing and make his voice heard? At the same time, numerous American flags are being left around town. While some think it's a harmless prank and others see it as a form of peaceful protest, Noah can't shake the feeling something bigger is happening to his community. Especially after he witnesses events that hint divides and prejudices run deeper than he realized. As the personal and social tensions increase around them, Noah and Walt must decide what is really true when it comes to love, friendship, sacrifice, and fate."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alexander, Kwame
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.5.A44
- LC item number
- Sw 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Hess, Mary Rand
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Novels in verse
- Best friends
- Friendship
- African Americans
- Baseball stories
- Letters
- Best friends
- Friendship
- African Americans
- Baseball
- Letters
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 448 pages
- Isbn
- 9780310761938
- Lccn
- 2018030417
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1048615401
- Label
- Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 448 pages
- Isbn
- 9780310761938
- Lccn
- 2018030417
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1048615401
Subject
- Baseball stories
- Best friends -- Fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Fiction
- Letters -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- Novels in verse
- Young adult fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Baseball -- Fiction
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