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Best of Design Matters:Jason Reynolds

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

CHAPTER

The Importance of Intentional Humanness

I think that the whole notion of your books being considered YA books is a bit of a misnomer. I've only actually ever cried at the end of three books, like really wept. And you know, Castle is the hero of ghost, but you never give him the burden of being heroic. No. He's just a person and it's also the reason why we don't know what happens at theend of that story because it doesn't actually matter. Has he already won? Wept. Came into the den. Roxanne's like, oh my God, what happened? I finished ghost. You hope you show that you can't run away from who you are

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