Fast Break Characters

The Crossover, a verse novel by Kwame Alexander, is the story of twelve-year old Josh Bell and his life’s occurrences, including learning of his brother, Jordan (JB’s), girlfriend, Alexis, throwing a basketball at JB’s nose so hard that it bled, and hearing of his father’s death that happened during the basketball tournament he won towards the end of the book. In this book, many important lessons are learned such as, the most noteworthy: strong family bonds bring happiness and benefit to the entire family, the importance of listening to people who matter to you, and how meaningful and necessary it is to understand the feelings and actions of others.

High school is a big time for change in a teenagers life. They go through problems with friends, family, grades, and sports. For Andy Jackson, a 17 year old student at Hazelwood High School, he went through all of those troubles. He plays for the basketball team with his friends Rob Washington, Tyrone Mills, and B.J. Carson. One night after basketball practice, Andy was drinking alcohol and driving which led them to get in a car crash. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped the car with a few cuts and bruises, but Rob got stuck and burned to death. Rob’s death brought Andy to blame himself. He turns away from his friends, his girlfriend, Keisha, and his family. Andy changes negatively after the car crash; he becomes insecure, he closes up his feelings, and he turns emotionally weak.

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

Josh gets in fights with his brother Jordan because he has to help him with his school work because he is out with his girlfriend Alexis “Miss Sweet Tea, Miss Bitter Tea”. Josh gets through the story with

Paul and his family move from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida. He has a brother named Erik who is a place kicker for the football team at Lake Windsor. On Paul’s first day at Lake Windsor he meets a kid named Joey Costello. When Paul finds out their is a soccer team he automatically thinks he is going to be the starter goaltender. He can’t play for Lake Windsor because of the IEP(his is blind). Then a sinkhole happens,and Paul is happy about that because Erik just lost all of his fans. Paul’s mom wanted him to go to St. Anthony’s,but Paul wanted to go to Tangerine so he could play soccer and be the starting goalie. On the first day of school Dr. Johnson had Theresa show Paul around. Paul met Victor, Tino, and Henry D. Paul and Joey were

1. Characters- The main characters are Cassia and Ky. Once in awhile a guy named Xander comes up in the story but not often.

    The story starts off with JayJay leaving his ranch after his father died, he then gets on the only bus in town which goes to Los Angeles, as the bus is driving it gets in an accident and JayJay wakes up in a movie studio. The book then goes to the writer of a show called Heartland and he’s writing what happened to JayJay, this  is when we discover that JayJays life isn’t real but actually the show Heartland and that he’s now in the universe that made him.  Then through the next several scenes it’s a mixture of JayJay being confused on what's happening

She wants to be on the sidelines close to her crush, Eric Delong. When she finds out he is going out for the wrestling team she does too. Then she discovers this causes a whole new set of problems. Her brother John hates this and even becomes cruel, her sister P.K. and mother support her wholeheartedly. Although her father stands up for her right to participate he stays silent otherwise.

Zoe is a petite girl about five feet tall. She has big luscious eyes with medium size ears. Her lips are wide and full and her nose is portion to her oval face. Her eyebrows are arced and shaped nicely. Zoe hair has a perm texture and her hair type is of 1B color and 4C hair type, as it would be defined at a natural hair salon for black girls/women. Zoe had on a white shirt with black writing on it. She wore a light blue pair of jeans that were cut up from the thighs to the knees. Her sneakers were black and white vans and her backpack was gray. Her nails were cut short with no nail polish. She wore silver metal stud earrings with a matching silver metal thin necklace. Overall Zoe looks like a normal teenager going to school.

My main character's name is Matt, Matt is a thirteen year old boy living a normal life. He has two sisters, a mom and dad. I like Matt, he’s not cocky at all even though he is one of the smartest kids everybody knows. My favorite quote so far is “Home? Not for me.

Our story begins in the city of Gatlin, LA. A young man by the name of Ethan Wate, listlessly nods of in class. Blissfully unaware that his life will soon forever change. His candid, simplistic life soon runs amuck with a humble beginning. Ethan wate a 17 year old man, lives the simple life; Breakfast made by his Aunt, school and homework.

In the beginning she wonders if she’ll ever be able to have any fun at this new place. Now knowing anybody, where the good spots to chill at are, and what there really was to do. She had no clue where to even begin, until she walked upon a volleyball game. She finds this cute boy named Will,

If I were to add a new character I would add a character called Dylan. Dylan would be one of the main characters in the book. He would have black hair. He would have a buzz cut and almost always wear a military hat. He wants to be in the military when he grows up and even retire from the military. He is about 6 ft. with a muscular build. He plays football and basketball at All-American High. He is liked by almost everyone in the school. He has tan skin and ocean blue eyes. He focus’ on school mostly though he also loves going to the gym. He has never failed a grade and has had straight A’s since 1st grade. His best friends are Will and Niki. He goes to the gym with Will all the time and loves to play basketball with him. They met in 3rd grade

The main character that the book is based on is Drew Robinson. Drew, also known as True, is a sophomore in high school in Queens, NY and loves the game of basketball. He is arguably the best high school basketball player in the area. True’s best friend, Lee Atkins, is a senior at the school. Since he is in his last year of high school basketball, all Lee wants is to make a run in the playoffs and win the championship game. True’s mother is Darlene Robinson. Darlene got a job in California, thanks to a man named Mr. Seth Gilbert, who saw True playing an AAU basketball tournament. Mr. Gilbert wanted him to attend Oakley High School in CA to play for Coach DiGregorio. Mr. Gilbert believes True is the best player and that he will make it into the NBA. So, Mr. Gilbert helps True meet some people who can help him become sponsored. When True goes to play basketball by himself at Morrison Court, he keeps seeing a ghost man. He finds out that the ghost man is Urban Sellers, a basketball player who ruined his career before he was even out of high school. Seeing him made True not want to make the same mistakes. Callie Mason is on the girls’ basketball team and True has a crush on her. He even sneaks into the gym to watch the girl’s team practice from time to time.

Sergio is a star basketball player that has the dreams of any basketball player. Sergio’s dream is to win a basketball championship and to make it to the NBA. The oldest brother is June. He is in the middle of a life filled with drugs and crime just to get money. The only little girl of the family is Jackie.