A Caldecott Honor winner! Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and
text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written
by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Jason Reynolds and
his best bud Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it in one fell swoop
in about ten sentences and 300 pages of art this piece this
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project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word especially NOW. And so
for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe REALLY breathe for
generations now you know. And those who already do you’ll be nodding yep yep that is exactly
how it is.
