Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander leaves mark on Sourcebooks
About 18 years ago, Kwame Alexander was struggling to sell a novel in verse about twin brothers who are star basketball players at their middle school. Eventually, after enduring rejections from more than 20 publishers, Alexander got a yes. When that novel, “The Crossover”, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014, it was a