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Jason Reynolds


Born
in Washington, D.C., The United States
December 06, 1983

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Jason Reynolds is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audience. After earning a BA in English from The University of Maryland, College Park, Jason Reynolds moved to Brooklyn, New York, where you can often find him walking the four blocks from the train to his apartment talking to himself. Well, not really talking to himself, but just repeating character names and plot lines he thought of on the train, over and over again, because he’s afraid he’ll forget it all before he gets home.

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Day 30 of 30

WHEN THEY BURY TONY ALLEN


let there be silence first

just for a moment while we stretch

our skin across this barrel of an earth


this headless and assless cavity

just for a moment while we stretch

our skin across the splintered wood


of history brown from bucktown to trenchtown

just for a moment while we stretch

our skin from trenchtown to lagos


to brixton the epidermis of everything

just for a moment whi

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Quotes by Jason Reynolds  (?)
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

“You can't run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be.”
Jason Reynolds, Ghost

“Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel the beat of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to be shocked back into my best self?”
Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

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What book should we read in April?

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  37 votes 24.5%

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill (write-in)
 
  30 votes 19.9%

 
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The Ogress and the Orphan (write-in)
 
  12 votes 7.9%

 
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Those Kids From Fawn Creek (write-in)
 
  4 votes 2.6%

I Must Betray You (write-in)
 
  3 votes 2.0%

I Will Betray You (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.7%

Wishing Upon The Same Stars (write-in)
 
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