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Solo (Blink) Paperback – Import, 23 July 2019
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Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, “A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told.” Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs.
Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he’d give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father.
In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he’s been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift.
Solo:
- Is written by New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Book Award-winner Kwame Alexander
- Showcases Kwame’s signature intricacy, intimacy, and poetic style, by exploring what it means to finally go home
- An #OwnVoices novel that features a BIPOC protagonist on a search for his roots and identity
- Received great reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus.
If you enjoy Solo, check out Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess.
- Print length464 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherClarion Books
- Publication date23 July 2019
- Grade level8 - 9
- Reading age13 years and up
- Dimensions13.97 x 2.87 x 21.21 cm
- ISBN-100310761883
- ISBN-13978-0310761884
- Lexile measureHL640L
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Review
A rhythmic, impassioned ode to family, identity, and the history of rock and roll. — Booklist (starred review)
A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told. — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About the Author
Kwame Alexander is the New York Times Bestselling author of 32 books, including The Undefeated; How to Read a Book; Solo; Swing; Rebound, which was shortlisted for prestigious Carnegie Medal; and his Newbery medal-winning middle grade novel, The Crossover. He’s also the founding editor of Versify, an imprint that aims to Change the World One Word at a Time. Visit him at KwameAlexander.com
Mary Rand Hess is a poet, mixed-media artist, screenwriter, and New York Times bestselling author of Solo and Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures, both coauthored with Kwame Alexander.
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Product details
- Publisher : Clarion Books; Reprint edition (23 July 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0310761883
- ISBN-13 : 978-0310761884
- Reading age : 13 years and up
- Item Weight : 435 g
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.87 x 21.21 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,142,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #136 in Literary Fiction for Young Adults
- #890 in Books on Family Issues for Young Adults
- #1,461 in Fiction About Family for Young Adults
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors
Mary Rand Hess is a poet, playwright, screenwriter, mixed-media artist, and New York Times bestselling author of notable and award-winning books such as Solo and Swing (HarperCollins), coauthored with Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander, Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures (National Geographic Children’s Books), also coauthored with Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido, Little Larry Goes to School (National Geographic Children’s Books), written with renowned photographer Gerry Ellis, and The One and Only Wolfgang: From Pet Rescue to One Big Happy Family, coauthored with Steve Greig of @wolfgang2242 Instagram fame. Her picture books, Belong (HarperCollins) and Quiet is Strength (Rocky Pond Books) are forthcoming in 2024 and 2025. Mary lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, two wildly creative sons, and one quirky dog (who sings while she plays the piano). In her spare time, she loves to wander in nature, compose on the piano, listen to music, read and collect books, mentor aspiring writers, create mixed media art, and spend time with family, friends, and her dog. She can't imagine a world without mountains and the sea, stories, poetry, and rock and roll. Visit her at www.maryrandhess.com or @maryrandhess on Instagram.
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times Bestselling author of 35 books, including BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI (co-authored with James Patterson), SOLO, REBOUND, which was shortlisted for prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, The Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor-winning picture book, THE UNDEFEATED, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and, his NEWBERY medal-winning middle grade novel, THE CROSSOVER. A regular contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. In 2018, he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. Kwame is the Founding Editor of VERSIFY, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that aims to Change the World One Word at a Time.
Kwame's most recent book is LIGHT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE: A THOUSAND WORDS ON RACE AND HOPE. Find out more info on Kwame and where he'll be at www.KwameAlexander.com.
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Blade is the son of a washed up rock singer who spends most of his life drunk or high, and unlike his forgiving sister, Blade just can't forgive his father for the hell he has put them through. When his father completely ruins his graduation, Blade can't take it anymore, and it is then he finds something out that shocks him to the core and changes his summer plans, as he heads off to Ghana to find what has been missing in his life.

Knowing other works by Kwame Alexander, I doubted this warning. Still, I would be purchasing it for the son of a friend, a young man in the hospital who has a good bit of empty time on his hands and who has enjoyed earlier books by Alexander. So I purchased it, and when the book was delivered I checked to see if it would be inappropriate for a 13 year old.
Anyway, there is no such scene of graphic sex. There IS a scene on page 19 of the narrator necking in a hammock with his girlfriend "who doesn't believe in sex before marriage." Very mild stuff. Absolutely nothing compared to what most 13 year olds probably fantasize about in their quiet moments.
So, this book will be delivered to a young man with a severe medical condition who loves to read, along with another novel, Swing, also by Kwame Alexander.

