My cousin Jake is going to be a big star.
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
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Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
2 comments:
Whether he knows it or not, one of the things your cousin is good at is surrounding himself with talented people. The woman playing first fiddle soloed with the MCCO when she was 12 or 13 years old, and the guy doing the fingersnaps (hip hop tee shirt) is Ashe, and just last weekend he sang a bunch of Mozart arias with us. You can read about it at http://www.mcco-online.org/news/currentnews.asp
But besides that, Jake's songwriting and front-man skills are prodigious!
Just a brief correction on the above comment. The fingersnaps are by James Green. No less a talent in his own right and is currently singing with Ashe and some others in an octet that is doing a few things this summer. He is a great trumpet player and drummer.
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