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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
9 comments:
that's awesome and well deserved.. Congratulations!!
Congrats! I'm proud of you.
Yea! Congrats!
Well done, Joe! It's wonderful that such a compelling story, a true story, is recognized by so many as award-winning.
Hi Joe - I also saw the paperback edition with a full-page promotion in some catalog. It looked great.
Well deserved.
Does "award-winning author" bump you up to Second Class? Whatever. You're First Class in my book. Congrats again!
Thank you all!
I read the Cross-X for a book club, and was totally enthralled!
Congrats!
Saw your picture on Sabrina Staires' website - said "hey, that's Joe Miller" "Who's that?" asked my perusing friend. "The guy who wrote Cross X" "Hey - that was a kick ass book."
Totally agree. Congrats.
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