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Title PBS NewsHour. Poet's novel turns young sports lovers into book lovers / [produced by NewsHour Productions]
Published Arlington, VA : NewsHour Productions LLC, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (5 minutes)
Summary How do you get reluctant readers to fall in love with a book? Writer and literacy activist Kwame Alexander says you have to offer them something relatable. In "The Crossover," basketball is the hook to persuade kids to pick up a novel written in poetic verse. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Alexander to discuss his award-winning young adult book
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed May 18, 2023)
Performer Interviewee: Kwame Alexander ; reporter: Jeffrey Brown
Notes In English
Subject Alexander, Kwame. Crossover
African American authors -- 21st century -- Interviews
Boys -- Books and reading
Young adult poetry, American -- History and criticism
Basketball stories -- History and criticism
Novels in verse -- History and criticism
African American authors.
Basketball stories.
Boys -- Books and reading.
Novels in verse.
Young adult poetry, American.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television news programs.
Interviews.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television news programs.
Form Streaming video
Author Alexander, Kwame, interviewee
Brown, Jeffrey, 1956- interviewer, narrator
NewsHour Productions, publisher, production company
OTHER TI In series: PBS newshour