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The Moves Make the Man: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

The Moves Make the Man: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Paperback

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Bruce BrooksAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1995-12-15Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780064405645ISBN-10:64405648UPC:9780064405645Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Sports & RecreationBook Topic:Friendship, Prejudice & Racism, BasketballAward:1985 Newbery Medal Honor Book - Children's AwardSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCKPED6SZZ
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....

Languages:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780064405645ISBN-10:64405648UPC:9780064405645Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Sports & RecreationBook Topic:Friendship, Prejudice & Racism, BasketballAward:1985 Newbery Medal Honor Book - Children's AwardSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCKPED6SZZ
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.

Publisher: HarperCollins

Awards

🏆 1985 Newbery Medal Honor Book - Children's Award

Contributor(s)

Bruce Brooks

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