Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes

Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus, Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to finally reach his distant father--by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports. This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself.

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

★ 'Grimes returns to the novel-in-verse format, creating voice, characters, and plot in a series of pithy tanka poems, a traditional Japanese form similar to haiku, but using five lines... (w)ritten from Garvey's point of view, the succinct verses convey the narrative as well as his emotions with brevity, clarity, and finesse.'  —Booklist, starred review

★ "(A) sensitively written middle grade novel in verse... (readers) will fall hard for Garvey, a tender, sincere boy who dislikes athletics. Grimes writes about adolescent friendships in a way that feels deeply human. A short, sweet, satisfying novel in verse that educators and readers alike will love." —School Library Journal, starred review

★ "Grimes' newest follows a young black boy searching for his own unique voice, lost among his father's wishes and society's mischaracterizations. This compassionate, courageous, and hopeful novel explores the constraints placed on black male identity and the corresponding pains and struggles that follow when a young black boy must confront these realities both at home and in school.... This graceful novel risks stretching beyond easy, reductive constructions of black male coming-of-age stories and delivers a sincere, authentic story of resilience and finding one's voice." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Grimes tells a big-hearted story of Garvey...(e)mploying the Japanese poetic form of tanka—five-line poems (or, here, stanzas) with haiku-like syllable counts—Grimes reveals Garvey's thoughts, feelings, and observations, the spare poetry a good vehicle for a young man's attempts to articulate the puzzle that is his life." —The Horn Book

Nikki Grimes, a New York Times bestselling poet, won the ALAN Award for Outstanding Contributions to Young Adult Literature in 2020. Her notable works include the modern classic Bronx Masquerade, the award-winning verse novel Dark Sons on the life of Ishmael, the memoir in verse Ordinary Hazards, which won the Printz Award, Siebert Honor, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the celebrated Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and the New York Times bestseller Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice. Grimes has been included in the pages of IMAGE Journal of Arts and Religion, World, Today's Christian Woman, Poetry Magazine, Hunger Mountain, and the Academy of American Poets series, Poem a Day, among others. He is the author of ALA Notable Poetry Books Coming Sunday, At Jerusalem's Gate, and Voices of Christmas. Her poetry has appeared in various collections, including The Golden Shovel Anthology, where she was nominated for the Pushkin Prize. Grimes is a Corona, California native.

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ISBN 13	9781629797403
ISBN 10	1629797405
Titel	Garvey's Choice
Autor	Nikki Grimes
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Astra Publishing House
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-10-04
Seitenanzahl	120
Preise	Winner of Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year 2016, Winner of Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Books, Best of the Best 2016, Winner of NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2016, Winner of IRA Notable Books for a Global Society 2017, Winner of ALSC Notable Children's Books 2017, Winner of CCBC Choices 2017, Winner of School Library Journal: Best Books of the Year 2016, Winner of Booklist Top 10 Contemporary Middle-Grade Novels 2016, Winner of ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers 2016, Winner of Chicago Public Library, Best of the Best Books 2016
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