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Before the ever after / Jacqueline Woodson.
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
Record details
- ISBN: 0399545433
- ISBN: 9780399545436
- Physical Description: 161 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 23.99 |
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| Genre: | Novels in verse. Football stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | J FIC Woods | 31681020153292 | JFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The son of an idolized pro-football star begins noticing the contrast between his fatherâs angry, forgetful behavior and his superhero reputation before adjusting to a new reality involving difficult symptoms stemming from his fatherâs numerous head injuries. By the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career. - Penguin Putnam
WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.
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?
