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    The Moves Make the Man
    The Moves Make the Man
    The Moves Make the Man
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Moves Make the Man

    Written by Bruce Brooks

    Narrated by Peter Francis James

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    Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me.

    Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball.

    Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a great athlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell that bix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the right moves....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 25, 2009
    ISBN9780061791451
    Author

    Bruce Brooks

    Bruce Brooks was born in Virginia and began writing fiction at age ten. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University Of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher and lecturer. Bruce Brooks has twice received the Newbery Honor, first in 1985 for Moves Make the Man, and again in 1992 for What Hearts. He is also the author of Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, and Throwing Smoke. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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    • 5/5
      Wow! I can't believe it took me this long to read this one. Why did I put it off? Oh, right, basketball.This was one on the Battle of the Books book list when I was in middle school, and I never read it because I have never been into sports. However, Bruce Books writes in a very compelling way that actually made me care at least as long as Jerome Foxworthy was sharing his story, probably because he himself was so interested, and the way he talked about it was much broader than just the basics of the game, it was also about how a person plays it and how that can tell you about the person.At its heart, The Moves Make the Man is the story of Jerome Foxworthy's meeting, befriending, and trying his best to understand Bix, a young white boy with some very serious issues, but Jerome's first run-in with Bix doesn't reveal this, just spying him from afar while Bix plays baseball (a sport Jerome loathes) against his brother's team. The story, taking place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1961, then pushes Bix and Jerome together through a series of circumstances, starting with Jerome's transfer to a new school thanks to Desegregation.In the beginning, it is hard to tell how everything happening to Jerome connects with his eventual friendship with Bix, this bit of information already having been revealed right at the start of the narrative, but it all eventually comes together in a very fascinating read of the complexity of humans and human relationships. Also, the more I read the more I found myself relating to both Jerome and Bix in certain ways, which is always a plus.I'm amazed this isn't on more Must-Read lists, as it certainly just found a place on mine, especially for the age and grade-level it is meant for. So good.
    • 5/5
      Powerful story about friendship and family and how each can make us heroically strong or frighteningly fragile.
    • 4/5
      Two boys, both with issues of their own, become friends over the game of basketball, but one of them may be too troubled to be saved by the other.And intense and touching story that had me rooting for both boys.