Bonus! Kwame Alexander provided some videos just for kids learning at home. Follow this link to see his poetry lessons and hear him read from his books: http://athomewithkwame.com/

Here he is reading an excerpt from The Crossover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbMj6lG4shM

Click on the link below to find more information about the honor books. How many did you read? http://massachusettschildrensbookaward.blogspot.com/

Go to Hoopla or Overdrive (or Sora through PSBMA) to check out one of these books in e-book or audio form.

https://www.brooklinelibrary.org/elibrary/e-books/

Not sure about how to check out your school library’s e-books? Click here for directions and short videos to learn how!

Learn about Kwame Alexander using Biography in Context

• Go to psbma.org

• Choose “library”

• Choose “6-8 Resources”

• Enter the password “psbma”

• Under “Reference” find Biography in Context & click on that button

• Use the password “remote”

• Type in “Kwame Alexander”

• Many articles about him will be located

• Choose one article to read and find out more about this award-winning author

• Then see who else you can learn about through this database. There are people from history as well as current-day figures included here.