The Crossover is a 2014 children's book by American author Kwame Alexander and the winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award Honor. As Lowry begins to explore violence and what drives people to do what they do, we begin to see Lowry change.

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In Crossed Over, Beverly Lowry reveals how Tucker, a full-time addict and part-time prostitute, had been dealt this fate as a child–only to pursue it relentlessly herself in Houston’s violent subculture of bikers and outlaws. It doesn’t matter if I’m teaching freshmen or seniors, the boys in those classes often want to read a book with a story line revolving around sports. Beverly Lowry loses her son in a hit-and-run accident, and tries to process the grief and move forward with her life. Some examples are when Kate from TomSka's Crash Zoom series makes an appearance in Eddsworld as a trick or treater who possesses Matt and Edd in the episode, "Trick or Threat". I know there’s nothing wrong with reading books intended for younger audiences but they’re usually not my jam.The library edition I read did not have the new forward, so I did not get to the very end--either of Bev's account or of Karla's life. Among African-Americans, the disease also tends to be more severe and develops earlier in life than it does in others, hence why Dad and his father die at 39 and 45 respectively.

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I wanted to read it again promptly upon finishing and I haven't experienced that urge in quite some time. Kwame Alexander does a great Job of developing the main and secondary characters in this short easy read. One of the earlier instances of crossovers in TV productions outside the US is the episode Unter Brüdern [ de] (1990), which was produced by WDR and DFF as a crossover between the West German crime series Tatort and the East German crime series Polizeiruf 110. The satirical crossover—ranging in length from a cameo to a full comedy sketch or episode—is an extremely popular way of circumventing this problem. Writing for the Washington Post, Mary Quattlebaum said Alexander was "at the top of his poetic game in this taut, complex tale of the crossover from brash, vulnerable boy to young adult.

This post would not be complete if I didn’t share some wonderful crossover fiction for you to add to your Goodreads shelves. This book combines the story of the hard road traveled by the author after losing her son to a hit-and-run driver, who was never caught or punished, and the maybe even harder road of Karla Faye Tucker, sent to Death Row for killing someone with an axe.