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The Moves Make the Man: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Contributor(s): Brooks, Bruce (Author)

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ISBN: 0064405648     ISBN-13: 9780064405645
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1995
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Annotation: "Brooks' fine first novel has a basketball theme and plenty of action, but sport is merely the vehicle for delivering a serious story of friendship and madness" (School Library Journal). "Brilliant sportswriting and a trenchant examination of the friendship between (the) narrator . . . and a white boy in trouble".--ALA Booklist (starred).
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Basketball
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 83049476
Age Level: 13-UP
Grade Level: 8-UP
Lexile Measure: 1150(Not Available)
Guided Reading: Z (Grade 7/8)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.5" L (0.40 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - North Carolina
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Friendship
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Awards: Newbery Medal, Honor Book, Children's, 1985
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 775
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me.

Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball.

Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a great athlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell that bix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the right moves....


Contributor Bio(s): Brooks, Bruce: -

Bruce Brooks was born in Virginia and began writing fiction at age ten. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University Of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher and lecturer.

Bruce Brooks has twice received the Newbery Honor, first in 1985 for Moves Make the Man, and again in 1992 for What Hearts. He is also the author of Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, and Throwing Smoke. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.


 
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