Swing by Kwame Alexander

Reviewed by G. Buss, January 2019

Noah and Walt (aka Swing) have been trying out for the high school baseball team for the last 3 years and in the search for "cool". Walt is on the track to woo girls and gain athletic fame. While Walt's friend Noah is taking advice from Walt's cousin on how to win his friend and long-time crush, Sam. Until he stumbled in to old love letters that he could use to win Sam over. Who knows if Walt will join the baseball team and if Noah will say how he feels about Sam. Find out in Swing.

This book is for tweens and teens, non-gender specific. If you enjoy books about friendships, love, and brotherhood, then this is a must read book. It does have some violence and a bit of profanity. This is a poetry novel. If you enjoy Star Girl or Dog, you would enjoy this.