Jason Reynolds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Appears on list
Description
There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
2) Ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you're on the victim side of the hustle. And Miles knew hustling was in his veins." Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. He's even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Oh yeah, and he's Spider Man. But lately,
...Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the "action-packed...banter-filled" (School Library Journal, starred review) sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man.
Miles Morales is just your average teenager. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem...
Miles Morales is just your average teenager. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you're on the victim side of the hustle. And Miles knew hustling was in his veins. Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. He's even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Oh yeah, and he's Spider Man. But lately, Miles's...
10) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
11) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
13) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
"Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way—then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He’s Stuntboy. He’s got the moves. And the saves. Except. There’s been one major fail. He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball...
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
18) For Every One
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. Jump Anyway is for kids who dream. Kids who dream of being better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than they almost dare to dream....
Author
Pub. Date
©2009
Appears on list
Description
"Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance. A reissue of a memoir of a moment in time within a lifetime of friendship"--