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Essential Read

Look Both Ways

by Jason Reynolds · 2019

Literary Fiction · ranked #253 in category

Winner · The Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2021

Ten interconnected stories follow different groups of kids walking home from the same middle school on the same afternoon — each story a small world of its own, each connected to the others by the walk itself. Reynolds's Carnegie Medal-winning collection captures the texture of childhood and adolescence with warmth, humour and unexpected depth.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2019 · 2010s
Author
Jason Reynolds
Standing
Essential Read

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