Jason Reynolds

Finalist, 2019 National Book Awards
Longlist, 2017 National Book Awards
Finalist, 2016 National Book Awards

Jason Reynolds is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books for children and young adults. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow and two-time National Book Award Finalist, Jason is best known for his novels All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), the Track series, and Long Way Down, which received Newbery, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Honors. Learn more >

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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

ISBN 9781481438285
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, Simon & Schuster /

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life. More about this book >

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Long Way Down

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds book cover
ISBN 9781481438254
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. More about this book >

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Ghost

Ghost, by Jason Reynolds, book cover
ISBN 9781481450157
Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. More about this book >

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Author in Focus: James Baldwin & His Legacy featuring Jason Reynolds and Ibi Zoboi


Jason Reynolds reads from Ghost at the 2016 National Book Awards Finalists Reading

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Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books for children and young adults. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow and two-time National Book Award Finalist, Jason is best known for his novels All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), the Track series, and Long Way Down, which received Newbery, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Honors. Among his many accolades, Jason was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2020–2022. Jason lives in Washington, DC.

(Photo credit: Adedayo “Dayo” Kosoko)

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