When you were ten years old and in the seventh grade, your whole life changed. Your parents split up, you started at a new school. This is when you first began being bullied. Was also the first time you ever started to fail. You gave up reading. But it was also when you started to write. So i wanted a sort of talk about that that time. Take us back to that year. Its interesting. Seventh grade was sixth and seventh grade were when my life really up as well. Everything changed. Tats sort of a before and after line in my life.
Jason Reynolds—award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature—discusses his prolific writing career that inspires young readers to discover their own stories.