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While Josh relates the story, readers get a full picture of major and minor players. Most interesting is the family dynamic that informs so much of the narrative, which always reveals, never tells. This novel in verse is rich in character and relationships. The twins experience their first major rift when JB is attracted to a new girl in their school, and Josh finds himself without his brother.

Now, however, he does not have a job and seems to have health problems the parents do not fully divulge to the boys. Their love of the sport comes from their father, who had also excelled in the game, though his championship was achieved overseas. After all, Josh has dreadlocks and is quiet on court, and JB is bald and a trash talker. As the two middle schoolers move to a successful season, readers can see their differences despite the sibling connection. They are also successful students, since their educator mother will stand for nothing else. Josh Bell and his twin, Jordan, aka JB, are stars of their school basketball team. ParkвЂ™s extended rumination has the power to bring us home.Д«asketball-playing twins find challenges to their relationship on and off the court as they cope with changes in their lives. Names and other details indicate a diverse class. Coupled with debut illustrator Sae-HengвЂ™s accessible grayscale sketches of the objects, often in situ, ParkвЂ™s subjectsвЂ™ mementos offer middle-grade readers much food for thought regarding what one values and how others can touch oneвЂ™s life.

Other treasures reflect differing levels of maturity and self- involvement: a motherвЂ™s insulin kit, a rug to smother flames, sneakers like вЂњJeremy Lin wore when he scored thirty-eight points / against the LakersвЂќ and for which the student had saved pennies for months, a вЂњmuddy blueвЂќ sweater MayвЂ™s fatherвЂ™s mother had knit for her father that her other grandmother then unraveled and reknit for her. DUHвЂќ (because вЂњif a fire burns everything up, youвЂ™re gonna need money. Some choose eminently practical items like a cellphone (вЂњsomebodyвЂ™s gotta call 9-1-1, right?вЂќ) and вЂњMY DADвЂ™S WALLET. Chang poses to her class a variation of the timeless desert-island question: вЂњImagine that your home is on fire,вЂќ and, while family and pets are spared, вЂњyouвЂ™re allowed to save one thing.вЂќ ChangвЂ™s students react well to this вЂњ good homework,вЂќ sharing with their classmates a multitude of objects theyвЂ™d protect from the hypothetical flames. Newbery Medalist Park presents a provocative collection of narrative poems inspired by sijo, a 14th-century Korean syllabic verse form. A poetic exploration of middle-grade values.

The one thing book