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| What do you do when you're eleven years old, over six feet tall, and not only hate basketball? Alexander "Suitcase" Bingham really wants to know. He's sick and tired of being the last kid picked in gym class. He's sick and tired of not being the athletic son his daddy seems to want. Xander has had enough. Whatever it takes to show the gym rats he can beat them at their own game, he's determined to do.
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| Grade 3-6-An 11-year-old African-American boy struggles to gain self-esteem and to earn his father's love and respect. Xander is tall for his age and his dad expects him to excel at basketball, but the boy's passion in life is for art. Xander's peers, and even his sister, ridicule him because of his height and his clumsiness on the basketball court. However, he works hard to gain mastery over his awkward body, and finally achieves a degree of success as an athlete. In the process, he discovers that his father loves him and supports his artistic endeavors as well. Walter does a splendid job of drawing readers into Xander's mind and heart, and of creating characterization and setting. The plot moves well, and the sports action and the child's personal struggles should sustain the interest of even reluctant readers. The prose successfully brings the emotions of the young protagonist to life. The author develops the novel's theme with skill and subtlety, showing that persistence and being true to oneself ultimately bring success.
Paul Kelsey, East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library, LA
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| 4 stars...I am a fifth grade student at Waldron Mercy Academy (AJPH.) This book is about an eleven year old boy who is over 6 feet tall and can't play basketball. Everyone calls him Xander. Kids make fun of him because he stinks at basketball and because he is tall. He is always the last one picked for basketball. His dad tells him every day to practice basketball, but he doesn't. Xander is frusterated because kids make fun of him and his dad telling him every day to practice basketball. So instead of him playing basketball he enters the City Spirit Art Festival Competition and won first prize. His whole family was proud of him. After the art festival no one made fun of him again. Everyone was so happy at school because he raised so much money. |
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