![]() Their father is a former European league basketball player, and their mother is an assistant principal at the boys’ junior high school. ![]() Josh and JB’s world is one in which both parents are professionals. Besides being an inch taller and the one with dreadlocks to his neck, Josh is also the brother with the larger vocabulary - by the novel’s end, he will define 12 important words and terms. The story is written in verse, but have no fear: Here, poetry is in service to the interior and exterior worlds of Josh, who plays forward to JB’s shooting guard. ![]() ![]() When we first encounter them in Kwame Alexander’s beautifully measured novel of life and lines, “The Crossover,” they are deep into a year when everything changes. Josh and JB are twins, double trouble on the basketball court, almost 13 years old. ![]()
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