Swing Audiobook (Free)

This audio edition of Swing by New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo) combines Kwame Alexander’s narration with jazz music flourishes to tell a lyrical story about hope, courage, and love that will speak to anyone who’s struggled to find their voice. And the shock closing shines a spotlight on the issues linked to our current public divide, demanding perspectives and inspiring everyone to make their voice noticed.

When America is not so beautiful, or on the subject of Swing right, or simply, it could be hard to know what to do. Close friends Walt and Noah choose their voices to develop more good in the world, but 1st they’ve surely got to find cool.

Walt is convinced junior season is their season, and he includes a intend to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. By no means brain that he and Noah failed to make the senior high school baseball team yet again, and Noah’s like curiosity since third grade, Sam, has him tightly in the friend area. Noah soon discovers himself navigating the worlds of jazz, batting cages, the unusual tips of Walt’s Dairy Queen-employed cousin, aswell as Walt’s “Hug Lifestyle” mentality. Position quo seems unavoidable until Noah stumbles on the stash of previous love letters. Each page provides the terms he’s always wished to say to Sam, and he starts secretly creating artwork using the lines that speak his center. However when his private artwork becomes general public, Noah has a decision to create: continue his lifestyle in the dugout and perhaps lose the girl forever, or have a swing and lastly speak out?

At the same time, numerous American flags are being remaining around town. Although some think it’s a harmless prank yet others see it as a kind of tranquil protest, Noah can’t tremble the feeling something bigger is happening to his community. Specifically after he witnesses events that hint divides and prejudices operate deeper than he recognized.

As the personal and social tensions increase around them, Noah and Walt must determine what is really true when it comes to love, friendship, sacrifice, and fate.

Swing:

Is written and narrated by New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott Ruler Honor Reserve Award-winner Kwame AlexanderIs a adult fiction novel told through Kwame’s one-of-a-kind free-verse poetryIs ripe with themes of wish, courage, and loveMasterfully combines jazz, artwork, baseball, companionship, and love into what most are calling “Kwame’s best reserve yet”Tackles some of the most painful social problems of today, including racial prejudice