Look Both Ways
by Jason Reynolds
🏆 2021 Carnegie Medal
A mixed collection of short stories, some of them very lovely, by The US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The stories are bound by a common thread: they all take place on the way home from school, in that space where children are unsupervised by teachers or parents. A myriad thoughts and words form along the city blocks that separate school and home, as relationships are built and events unfold on the children’s separate but interconnected journeys.
Ages 8-10
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Ten beautifully narrated short stories about the walk home from school.
Narrator: Jason Reynolds, Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin, Adenrele Ojo, Kevin R. Free, J.D. Jackson, Guy Lockard, January LaVoy, David Sadzin
Length: 3 hours and 58 minutes
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