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2022

Format:	Book
Author:	Reynolds, Jason.
Title:	Ain't burned all the bright / by Reynolds & Griffin.
Publisher, Date:	New York, New York : Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2022]
Description:	1 volume (unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Summary:	Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW. And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you'll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.
Target Audience Note:	Ages: 12 and up. Grades: 7-9.
Subjects:	African Americans -- Poetry. Children's poetry. Rosie Award Nominees 2024-2025.
Other Author:	Griffin, Jason.
Other Title:	Am not burned all the bright Have not burned all the bright
Notes:	American Library Association Best Fiction for YA, 2023 Horn Book Fanfare List, 2023 In the Margins Book Award, Fiction, 2023 Bulletin Blue Ribbons Awards, Fiction, 2022 Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature, Best Books, 2022 School Library Journal Best Books, 2022 Caldecott Honor Book, 2023. Winner of the Boston Globe Horn Award for Picture Books, 2022

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A Caldecott Honor winner!

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.

And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generation s , now you know. And those who already do, you'll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.

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