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A Hometown Author Uses Poetry that Tells a Story: Crossover by Kwame Alexander

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Can you imagine my excitement when I read that the 2015 Newberry award winner author was from Virginia (also Cece Bell, the author of one of the 2015 Newberry Honor books is also a Virginia resident--but we'll save that blog post for another time--It was a great year for Virginia authors!)? Can you imagine how much my excitement grew when I read that Kwame Alexander was from Chesapeake? In fact, he went to a high school that rivaled my own.  Pretty cool, right? Of course I had to read his book, Crossover .  I was excited to pick up my own copy and to read it to bask in the glory that is my hometown.  Part of me was worried though.  What if I hated the book?  How would I tell people about reading this book by a hometown author....but I didn't really like it? Well I think you have made the inference by now (we have been working on inferences with my fourth graders so I try to bring them up whenever possible) that I would not be writing this blog if I hated the book.  An