Before the Ever After
Nancy Paulsen Books (Verlag)
978-0-593-32466-0 (ISBN)
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For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?
Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Memory like a Movie
The memory goes like this:
Ollie s got the ball and he s running across my yard when
Dad comes out of nowhere,
soft tackles him to the ground.
Then everyone is cheering and laughing because
we didn t even know my dad was home.
I thought you had a game, I say, grabbing him.
It s a half hug, half tackle, but
the other guys Darry and Daniel hop on too
and Ollie s escaped, so he jumps
on top of all of us jumping on my dad.
Yeah, Mr. J., Darry says. I thought we d be watching you
on TV tonight.
Coach giving me a break, my daddy says. He climbs out
from under,
shaking us off like we re feathers, not boys.
Ah man! Darry says.
Yeah, we all say. Ah man!
Sometimes a player needs to rest, Daddy says.
He looks at each of us for a long time.
A strange look. Like he s just now seeing us.
Then he tosses the ball so far, we can t even see it anymore.
And my boys say Ah man, you threw it too far!
while I go back behind the garage where
we have a whole bunch of footballs
waiting and ready
for when my daddy sends one into the abyss.
Everybody s Looking for a Hero
Once, when I was a little kid,
this newscaster guy asked me if
my dad was my biggest hero.
No, I said. My dad s just my dad.
There was a crowd of newscasters circling around me,
all of them with their microphones aimed
at my face. Maybe I was nervous, I don t remember now.
Maybe it was after his first Super Bowl win, his ring
new and shining on his finger. Me just a little kid,
so the ring was this whole glittering world,
gold and black and diamonds against
my daddy s brown hand.
I remember hearing the reporter say
Listen to those fans! Looks like everybody s
found their next great hero.
And now I m thinking back to those times
when the cold wind whipped around me and Mom
as we sat wrapped in blankets, yelling Dad s name,
so close to the game, we could see the angry spit
spraying from the other team s coach s lips.
So close, we could see the sweat on my daddy s neck.
And all the people around us cheering,
all the people going around calling out his number,
calling out his name.
Zachariah 44! Zachariah 44!
Is your daddy your hero? the newscaster had asked me.
And all these years later, just like that day, I know
he s not my hero,
he s my dad, which means
he s my every single thing.
Day after the Game
Day after the game
and Daddy gets out of bed slow.
His whole body, he says,
is 223 pounds of pain
from toes to knees, from knees to ribs,
every single hit he took yesterday
remembered in the morning.
Before the Ever After
Before the ever after, there was Daddy driving
to Village Ice Cream
on a Saturday night in July before preseason training.
Before the ever after, there was Mom in the back seat
letting me ride up front, me and Daddy
having Man Time together
waving to everyone
who pointed at our car and said That s him!
Before the ever after, the way people said
That
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 176 g |
| Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität |
| Schlagworte | 5th grade books • 5th grade reading books • african american childrens books • african american fiction • award winning books • black childrens books • books by black authors • books for 10 year old boys • books for 10 year old girls • books for 11 year old boys • books for 12 year old boys • books for 12 year old girls • books for boys age 9 12 • books for kids age 9 12 • chapter books for kids age 9-12 • Coming of Age • Coretta Scott King • coretta scott king award childrens book • Death • Ever After • Family • Football • football books • football books for boys 9-12 • Grief • kids books ages 9-12 • Mental Health • mental health books • parenting • realistic fiction • realistic fiction books for kids 9-12 • Sports • sports books • sports books for kids age 9 12 • Sports injuries |
| ISBN-10 | 0-593-32466-8 / 0593324668 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-593-32466-0 / 9780593324660 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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