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WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.
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For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?
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“Guy Lockard delivers an outstanding performance…Woodson’s spare, lyrical text is beautifully enhanced by Lockard’s emotionally connected narration. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award,.”
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“Has the emotional wallop of an offensive tackle.”
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“A first choice for all collections.”
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“Highlights an important topic within the sports world.”
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“Secondary characters complete a mosaic of a loving African American family and their community of friends…A poignant and achingly beautiful narrative.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Audiofile Magazine “Best of the Year”
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#1 Amazon bestseller
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Winner of ALSC Notable Children's Books
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Winner of Coretta Scott King Author Award
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Winner of NAACP Image Award
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Winner of NCTE Notable Children's Trade Books in the Language Arts
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Winner of New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Winner of YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
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Winner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
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About Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson, named national Young People’s Poet Laureate, is a multiple-award-winning author of more than two dozen acclaimed books for young adults, middle graders, and children. She won the 2019 Indie Champion Award for advocacy of independent bookstores. Among her many other honors are the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the NAACP Image Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, among others. She is the 2018 winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for “substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.” She was the 2013 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.