03016cam a2200457 i 4500 437844670 TxAuBib 20200922120000.0 200422s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020018310 9780399545436 0399545433 TxAuBib rda Woodson, Jacqueline. Before the ever after [Print] / Jacqueline Woodson. Hardback. New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020] 176 pages ; 0.8" H x 8.6" L x 5.7" W (0.66 lbs.) txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jacqueline Woodson's novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past? 10 and UP. 20200922. Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee for Grades 6-8 (2023), Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2022), Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author (2021), Ohioana Book Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature (2021), Truman Readers Award Nominee (2023), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2020), NAACP Image Award for Youth/Teens (2021), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2023). Brain Diseases Juvenile fiction. Brain Juvenile fiction. Best friends Juvenile fiction. Fathers and sons Juvenile fiction. Memory Juvenile fiction. Football Juvenile fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Diseases Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Football stories. Novels in verse. JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries. JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents. JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Football. TXTLL