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Alta Branch library will be live streaming in the Alta community room, the first Teen Page to Podium speaker, Jason Reynolds.
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of 17 books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, All American Boys (with Brendan Kiely), Long Way Down, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (with Ibram X. Kendi), Stuntboy, in the Meantime (illustrated by Raúl the Third), and Ain’t Burned All the Bright (with artwork by Jason Griffin). He is the recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and multiple Coretta Scott King honors, Reynolds was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program, and lives in Washington, DC.