Although centred around the death of a parent, dealing with loss and grief and learning to rebound back into the new normal, Rebound is also a very funny book, full of positive messages and role models, without ever being patronising or preachy. There, fortified by his Grandma's fried chicken, his grandfather introduces him to jazz music and the importance of hard graft and his cousin Roxie introduces him to a whole new world of basketball, believing in his skills on the court absolutely, so that slowly but surely, things begin to change. Stealing from an elderly neighbour means Charlie is sent off to live with his paternal grandparents for the summer. Not even his best friends, CJ and Skinny, can bring him round. It's not surprising that Charlie becomes angry and argumentative, skipping school and mixing with the wrong crowd. The CLiPPA SHORTLIST includes the following titles, all reviewed on ReadingZone, below: Kwame Alexander for Rebound (Andersen Press) Steven Camden for Everything All At Once (Macmillan Children's Books) Rachel Rooney for A Kid in My Class (Otter-Barry Books) Philip Gross for Dark Sky Park (Otter-Barry Books) Eloise Greenfield for Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me (Tiny Owl) REBOUND BY KWAME ALEXANDER REVIEWED: When your dad drops dead of a heart attack right in front of you, you don't rebound easily - especially when you're only 12. Five winning groups will then be picked to perform at the award ceremony at the National Theatre, central London, on Wednesday 3rd July. If they wish to compete for tickets for the award ceremony, schools can also send in videos of their children performing poems from the shortlisted collections either as individuals, groups or as a class by 9am on 13th June 2019. It will launch officially on 17th May, when registered schools will receive free teaching plans and poet videos to support teaching of the shortlisted poems. Schools can follow the link, below, to register for the CLiPPA shadowing scheme. To follow are ReadingZone reviews of each of the shortlisted titles. Schools can now register to join the poetry award shadowing scheme for the CLiPPA poetry award, with resources available from 17 May.
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