Reynolds returned to poetry with Long Way Down (2017), a novel in verse which was named a Newbery Honor book, a Printz Honor Book, and best young adult work by the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards. He focused on poetry for approximately the next two decades, only reading a novel cover to cover for the first time at age 17 and publishing several poetry collections before he published his own first novel, When I Was The Greatest, in 2014. He won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for this first work of prose and seven more novels followed in the next four years, including Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny (2018) As Brave As You (2016), winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, and the 2017 Schneider Family Book Award and a Marvel Comics novel called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017). Meet Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu in Jason Reynolds’s explosive New York Times bestselling Track series here. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Born in Washington, DC and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap to begin writing poetry at nine years old. Jason Reynolds, the author of many best-selling books for children and young adults, likes to tell certain stories to audiences at his events. A fast but fiery group of kids from wildly different backgrounds, chosen to compete on an elite track team.

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