{"id":200,"date":"2019-05-14T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=200"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:43:59","slug":"rebound-by-kwame-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/05\/14\/rebound-by-kwame-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebound by Kwame Alexander (Carnegie Medal Shortlisted Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41wZRSCfVHL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i>\u2018Hoop kings SOAR<\/i><br \/>\n<i>in kicks with wings.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Game so sweet<\/i><br \/>\n<i>it\u2019s like bee stings.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he&#8217;s packed off to stay with his grandparents for the summer. There his cousin Roxie introduces him to a whole new world: basketball. A legend on the courts is born. But can Charlie resist when trouble comes knocking once again?<\/p>\n<p>From the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>-bestselling author Kwame Alexander,\u00a0<i>Rebound<\/i>\u00a0is a stunning coming-of-age novel in verse about basketball, family and staying true to yourself.<br \/>\nA prequel to<i>\u00a0The Crossover<\/i>, winner of the Newbery Medal, and follow-up to\u00a0<i>Booked<\/i>, highly commended for the CLiPPA prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.<\/p>\n<p>With comic-book illustrations from award-winning graphic novel artist Dawud Anyabwile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Hoop kings SOAR in kicks with wings. Game so sweet it\u2019s like bee stings.\u2019 It&#8217;s 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he&#8217;s packed off to stay with his grandparents for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/05\/14\/rebound-by-kwame-alexander\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rebound by Kwame Alexander (Carnegie Medal Shortlisted Book)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}