This is a great adaptation of Kwame Alexander's book "Booked". Students who love sports, graphic novels, and great writing will be drawn to this book. I am so glad more books are getting adaptations so that hesitant readers can hopefully gain enough interest to get their hands not only on the graphic novel, but want to pick up the novel itself!

I love this adaptation of Kwame Alexander's book "Booked". The graphic novel will really appeal to my readers, and it will be a great addition to our collection because it will grab our soccer players' attention.

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I absolutely love Kwame Alexander books! My students consistently check out his books. Adding a graphic novel format will encourage my resistant readers! I look forward to adding it to my classroom library!

Always a pleasure to read anything by Kwame Alexander, Booked does not disappoint. As a mother of three graphic novel readers, this book gives my diverse children representation and hope. It is authentic and the characters are incredibly relatable. So happy authors are writing new and relatable characters for todays kids.

Lively artwork and true to the novel, I couldn't put this graphic novel down. I will certainly recommend this book to many of my library patrons.

12 year old Nick is having a hard time with bullies, his parents divorce, and girls. He hates books but they might help him find the words he needs to help voice his side of everything going on.

This is a important book in teaching kids there are better ways to communicate than acting out and that there can be consequences to everything you do, on and off of a sports field or court. The illustrations are awesome. This book is great for everyone even reluctant readers.

This review will appear on my blog on July 12th.

Thank you to Netgalley and Clarion Books for the review copy of this book. The novels in verse by Kwame Alexander are absolutely gorgeous. Booked - the graphic novel version - has the beautiful lyrical writing of the novel, paired with beautiful illustrations that add so much to the story.

Booked follows soccer player Nick, who hates his father’s obsession with words. However, as he interacts more and more with the rapper turned librarian at his school, he learns how powerful words can be. I loved how bookish the story turned out to be as well as the sport aspect of the book. This is a book that I would recommend without hesitation to my students.

This graphic novel is written in prose for part of the book. It deals with family troubles, bullying and self awareness. It is more for kids 10 and up due to some of the topics. Well written and relateable.

A brilliant graphic version of this popular sports novelist (poet).
The same artist illustrated another book of his and this is just as full of movement, flowing with the words, giving a visual expression of the nature behind the words. The pictures are bold, and the lack of detail and colour makes it a less busy read than other graphic novels, which supports those who struggle with books that have 'too much' on the page.

Thank you to Etch/Clarion Books and NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book.

Years ago I was fortunate to meet Kwame Alexander at an author visit and book signing at Boswell Books in Milwaukee. When he read aloud portions of The Crossover, I was hooked! Shook! Booked! I bought both The Crossover and Booked and had Kwame sign them for my children. Over the years, I have read both myself, shared them with my own children, and read The Crossover to hundreds of my middle school students while pressing Booked into their hands. This graphic novel version of Booked is a wonderful compliment to the original text version. I loved seeing the characters coming to life in picture form. The only thing I didn't care for was that all of the female characters were depicted as tiny-waited and big-busted - unrealistic and something I thought we were done with. I will definitely still share this book with my children and my students, but with the caveat that not everyone is depicted realistically.

I had read the novelization of Kwame Alexander’s “Booked” a few years ago and was very excited to see it made into a graphic novel. This graphic novel did not disappoint and I feel would help those students who need to visualize his poems. This would be a great addition to any library.

Nick is a twelve-year-old soccer player. He isn't a fan of books, but his dad requires him to read from a dictionary in order to increase his vocabulary. Nick faces challenges related to soccer, bullying, girls, and his parents' relationship. Through it all he has the support of his best friend Coby, the school librarian, and a counselor.

I had already read Booked the novel in verse so I knew what I was in for but I loved the graphic novel version. Kwame Alexander is a master at creating fantastic engaging high-interest stories and I believe that many young readers will be able to relate to the struggles that Nick experiences. Turning the story into a graphic novel will make this story even more accessible to those who, like Nick, say they don't like to read.

The artwork is fantastic. While it doesn't follow a traditional graphic novel format the pages are eye-catching and easy to read. The best pages, in my opinion, were those that really showed his emotions during his parent's separation.

Highly recommend for all middle-grade readers and a go-to for those who enjoy sports books especially soccer.

I absolutely can't wait to get this into my classroom. Great story! Perfect for those readers that have trouble visualizing. I really enjoyed the highly relatable story in poetry novel form, and I totally bought it again.

Although I have read a few of Kwame Alexander's books, I have not read the original version of this one. As with The Crossover, this story is about so much more than sports. This title is actually a reference to both soccer and books. Nick loves soccer and is a good player, but he's also dealing with a lot at home, along bullies and even a medical issue. His dad is a linguistics professor and he's required to read his dad's dictionary of weird and wonderful words when really he does not want to read at all. Yet, as the story goes on, we see him figure things out with the support of his family, a really great friend, and a few others who encourage him to actually start enjoying reading.

Nick is a star soccer player who doesn't see the value in reading books. Unfortunately for him, his father is a "Linguistics Professor with Verbomania" who expects Nick to read from his unique words dictionary on a daily basis. Nick is dealing with all of the usual stressors of middle school: bullies, crushes, and homework when his parents drop a bombshell on him...his mom is moving away for work and their marriage is in jeopardy.

Can Nick overcome all of these obstacles to continue the pursuit of his soccer dreams? Will April, his crush, help him refocus on interests outside of soccer? Be sure to check out this graphic novel adaptation of Booked when it releases in the Summer of 2022!

Overall, I loved this book. I always like when authors include other books within their writing. This practice invites readers to seek out these other titles and read them too. The one flaw I found with this book is that the bullies are described as "pit-bull mean." As a pit bull owner, it's incredibly frustrating to hear stereotypes like this perpetuated. Pit bulls are incredibly sweet and loving animals who have received a bad reputation based upon how humans have treated them.

Confident and in control on the soccer field, middle schooler Nick struggles off the field between issues with his parents and dealing with schoolwork. He rather be playing or daydreaming about soccer but instead he has his English teacher nagging him to pay attention and his linguistics professor dad making him memorize vocabulary words. But with some prodding from the librarian and his crush to join the school book club Nick may find he may not hate reading and that he has more people on his side then he thinks. An ode to both soccer and words, Kwame Alexander’s novel in verse brings authenticity to the middle school experience.

Booked: The Graphic Novel takes Alexander’s original book and adds Dawud Anyabwile’s bold black and white illustrations to bring additional life to the story. With splashes of the same shade of green the graphics are simple but striking, using bold lines, different sized words, and varying layouts to convey the emotions of the language. Nick also unintentionally sprinkles the vocabulary words he’s forced to learn throughout his speech and a graphic with the word’s definition is given on the same page, tying the words into the story.

The multifaceted characters are what really make Booked shine though. The characters are complex and given enough details to feel like real people without slowing down the pace of the book. For instance, the librarian is a former rap producer who survived a brain tumor and now runs the Nerds and Words book club at school. In a few sentences Alexander develops this interesting side character that even without the illustrations the reader can visualize clearly.

Weaving an ode to words and language into a strikingly illustrated sports story, Booked: The Graphic Novel will appeal to a wide range of readers who will relate to the struggles of growing up.

I am a huge fan of Graphic novels in general, but I believe that graphic novel adaptations are an opportunity to share a story even farther to kids who are less intimidated or prefer graphic novels. This book is an incredible chance for young boys to see themselves and have their interests (and disinterest) respected while also showing them that maybe books aren't so bad, and life's problems aren't so scary. It will be a pleasure to have this book on our library shelves and to suggest it to our readers.

A lovely graphic novel that has a great plot and artwork! I will definitely be sharing this with my students as they are in love with great stories!

Thank you to NetGalley and Clairon Books for the opportunity to review the graphic novel version of Booked by Kwame Alexander.

Kwame Alexander has established himself as a master at writing engaging high-interest books that include deep thinking and complex vocabulary. I was thrilled when I first learned that some of his books were being adapted into graphic novels because that makes them even more accessible to young readers. Although Booked doesn't follow the traditional graphic novel format with panels and word balloons, the words and illustrations still work together to create a cohesive story.

Nick is a twelve-year-old soccer player. He isn't a fan of books, but his dad requires him to read from a dictionary in order to increase his vocabulary. Nick faces challenges related to soccer, bullying, girls, and his parents' relationship. Through it all he has the support of his best friend Coby, the school librarian, and a counselor. I believe that many young readers will be able to relate to the struggles that Nick experiences.

I would recommend this book to my middle school students and believe that it would also appeal to some high school students.

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