i'm glad you said that your work should be read out loud, because i wanted to read this. And the conversation for the rest of the night was pretty much all about the olympics. It seemed like everybody at the table cared and didn't care at the same time. They even asked me if i needed to borrow some practice gear, which i thought was nice,. But i told them i was cool, that my mother was going to get me some soon. Plus, i kind of wanted my first jersey and shorts to be the ones i ran my first race in.
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.