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Jason Reynolds: The Antidote To Hopelessness

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Is Trama the Only Thing That Exists?

I don't ever want to talk down to young people or pretend that i am 15, right? I'm not. But what i do know is that no one likes to be lectured to and everyone likes to be spoken to. Everyone likes a conversation. Nobody likes a sermon. And so if there's a way for me to create a conversational tone, even in a piece of fiction, that still feels sophisticated,. that still feels a nuanced and complicated the characters feel complicated. It pushes back against some of the stereotypes without eliminating or completely washing the idea that trama exists. Because it does exist, right? But it doesn't. The first book was about four boys growing up in

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