Jason Reynolds
Författare till Ghost
Om författaren
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 visa mer Boys. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: 2018 National Book Festival By Avery Jensen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72641781
Serier
Verk av Jason Reynolds
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (2020) 1,854 exemplar
Jerk 3 exemplar
The Mouthless God and Jesus Number Two 3 exemplar
Our story. Our way 1 exemplar
Run (versione italiana) (Track Vol. 2) 1 exemplar
Daqui Pra Baixo (Portuguese Edition) 1 exemplar
Untitled 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 221 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1983-12-06
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Bostadsorter
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Utbildning
- University of Maryland (BA|English)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (2023)
- Agent
- Elena Giovinazzo
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 37
- Även av
- 15
- Medlemmar
- 16,132
- Popularitet
- #1,408
- Betyg
- 4.3
- Recensioner
- 687
- ISBN
- 386
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 3
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?… (mer)