At first, the conflict of the story wasn’t very obvious to me because it was an internal conflict between Charlie and his grief.Ĭharlie struggles consistently with his grief throughout the story. Like his other books, Kwame Alexander delivered a creative plot that captured me with a lot of really good details. Through it all, Charlie learns that although it’s hard, he has to rebound from this hardship. Charlie’s cousin, Roxie, teaches him how to improve his game, even though Charlie swears he will never play basketball again because it reminds him of his dad, who loved the sport. Charlie’s grandfather teaches him how to overcome grief by using basketball metaphors. When his mom sends him to his grandparents’ house for the summer, everything changes. It’s plain to see that Charlie is overwhelmed by grief. Charlie says he hates doctors because they couldn’t save his dad.
He no longer makes jokes and he and his mom fight all the time. Parents should be prepared to discuss coping with loss and feelings, as well as choosing the right people to allow in your life.In the fiction novel Rebound, by Kwame Alexander, a boy named Charlie “Chuck” Bell struggles to rebound from a tragedy he experienced during the summer of 1988.Īfter his dad dies, Charlie is different. It deals with the death of a parent and grief along with normal teen-growth drama.
This powerful novel in verse is set in the late 1980s and focuses on the childhood experiences of Chuck, who will grow up to become the beloved dad of The Crossover's Jordan and Josh. Parents need to know that New York Times best-seller Rebound is a stand-alone prequel to Kwame Alexander's Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor Book The Crossover. A boy looks forward to trying beer with his parent and hates it.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Two teens are caught with marijuana on them and get arrested. The same teen and his friends are seen drinking from bottles in brown paper bags, most likely alcohol. A teen is described as changing personalities when he started smoking weed.
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