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40 FOR FINDING POETRY IN ADOLESCENCE

Jason Reynolds

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With clear language and bracing honesty, Jason Reynolds’s young-adult novels grapple with thorny issues (alcohol abuse, gun violence, police brutality) in contemporary urban settings, offering a subset of readers a literary mirror they’ve

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