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Jason Reynolds

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Jason Reynolds is the author of When I Was the Greatest, for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. His debut middle grade book, As Brave As You, was awarded the 2016 Kirkus Prize for young readers'. His other works include Boy in the Black Suit, and All American vis mere Boys. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Image credit: 2018 National Book Festival By Avery Jensen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72641781

Serier

Værker af Jason Reynolds

Ghost (2016) 2,359 eksemplarer
Long Way Down (2017) 2,315 eksemplarer
All American Boys (2015) 1,829 eksemplarer
Patina (2017) 853 eksemplarer
As Brave As You (2016) 816 eksemplarer
The Boy in the Black Suit (2015) 735 eksemplarer
Sunny (2018) 656 eksemplarer
Lu (2018) 513 eksemplarer
When I Was the Greatest (2014) 493 eksemplarer
For Every One (2018) 454 eksemplarer
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel (2020) — Forfatter — 403 eksemplarer
Ain't Burned All the Bright (2022) 360 eksemplarer
Stuntboy, in the meantime (2021) 202 eksemplarer
There Was a Party for Langston (2023) — Fortæller, nogle udgaver86 eksemplarer
Stuntboy, In-Between Time (2) (2023) 18 eksemplarer
Jerk 3 eksemplarer
Jacob's Ladder (2004) 2 eksemplarer
Tornando a casa (2020) 1 eksemplar
Our story. Our way 1 eksemplar
Stuntboy in between time (2023) 1 eksemplar
Für alle (2022) 1 eksemplar
Self (2005) 1 eksemplar
Niente paura Little Wood! (2018) 1 eksemplar
Untitled 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) — Bidragyder — 1,460 eksemplarer
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (2019) — Bidragyder — 529 eksemplarer
Fresh Ink: An Anthology (2018) — Bidragyder — 365 eksemplarer
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (2018) — Bidragyder — 218 eksemplarer
How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation (2018) — Bidragyder — 163 eksemplarer
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood (2021) — Bidragyder — 160 eksemplarer
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice (2020) — Forord, nogle udgaver148 eksemplarer
Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration (2018) — Bidragyder — 145 eksemplarer
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance (2019) — Bidragyder — 106 eksemplarer
Anonymous Sex (2022) — Bidragyder — 61 eksemplarer
Everyday People: The Color of Life--a Short Story Anthology (2018) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
The Collectors: Stories (2023) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer

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African American (262) African Americans (128) anti-racism (76) black (242) brothers (87) coming of age (74) death (83) digte (211) faglitteratur (171) familie (221) grade 6 (83) Grade 7 (67) Grade 8 (63) graphic novel (71) historie (105) lydbog (64) læst (63) middle grade (103) middle school (338) nutidig (79) police brutality (66) race (87) racisme (230) realistisk fiktion (499) revenge (70) running (165) serie (112) Skal læses (860) skønlitteratur (461) social justice (108) sorg (68) sport (347) teen (75) track (135) U-W (86) urban (220) venskab (164) violence (83) YA (298) Young Adult (321)

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This is a haunting story regarding gun violence and how it continues from one member of a family to another.
When Will watches his older brother, Shawn, get shot and dies as a result, Will becomes obsessed to avenge Shawn's death.
When he finds Shawn's gun in his dresser drawer, he has a decision to make. Packing the pistol, he continues to feel an emptiness he never felt before.

Remembering the rules of the neighborhood regarding shootings,

1) NO CRYING
2) NO SNITCHING
3) REVENGE

Will enters an elevator that contains seven people he knew who were killed by gun violence. Written in a sparse poetic form, both violence and the repercussions are vividly told.

Can Will avenge Shawn's killer after his interactions with those in the elevator after they tell their story?
… (mere)
½
 
Markeret
Whisper1 | 141 andre anmeldelser | Mar 18, 2024 |
You can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he?

Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.… (mere)
 
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unsoluble | 141 andre anmeldelser | Mar 12, 2024 |
[4.25] One couldn’t ask for a book with a greater array of timely topics: racial tensions, white privilege, societal stereotypes and police brutality. It skillfully explores these complex issues through the eyes of teenaged protagonists who view the struggles from different perspectives. The story becomes marginally repetitive in the second half, and I do wish we had learned a bit more about a couple characters — including the offending police officer — before the final chapters. Nevertheless, “All-American Boys” is powerful book that merits being placed on school reading lists.… (mere)
 
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brianinbuffalo | 63 andre anmeldelser | Mar 11, 2024 |
this broke me in the best and most necessary way possible. we need books like this. if you haven’t read it, you need to. now.

content warnings for this book: police brutality, assault, racial profiling, racism, antiblackness, discussions of deaths of black people caused by police but not depicted, discussions of gun violence mentioned but not depicted, death of a parent mentioned frequently but not depicted (let me know if there are any more i need to tag)
 
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lizjenkins | 63 andre anmeldelser | Mar 10, 2024 |

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Medlemmer
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#1,408
Vurdering
4.3
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ISBN
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