https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/friscolibrary/rss/search?query=Reynolds%2C%20Jason%2C&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeFri, 13 Mar 2026 01:19:04 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C441076https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C441076Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/441076159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534418226/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C345543https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C345543Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/345543159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481438254/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to the hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, jam-packed with illustrations by Raúl the Third!
Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way—then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He's Stuntboy. He's got the moves. And the saves. Except. There's been one major fail.

He couldn't save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don't talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the frets.

What's also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate floors in their apartment building. He's never fully with one parent or the other. He's in-between, all the time. The in-between time. And the elevator is busted, so to get between floors means getting past the bullies who hang in the stairwells.

So when Portico and new friend, Herbert, and best best friend, Zola, discover an empty apartment, unlocked, they are psyched. It's a perfect hideout, and hangout, and it's not half anyone's...it's all theirs. So they decide to make it their own...let's say with stunts of the drawing kind. Problem is, that gives some Grown Up People the frets, which leads to double frets for Portico. And he's not sure his arsenal of stunts can combat that.]]>https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9064718https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9064718Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9064718980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534418240/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C341714https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C341714Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/341714159BKVol. 2enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481450188/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C475391https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C475391Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/475391159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798347102372/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C362334https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C362334Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/362334159BKVol. 4enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481450249/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C352232https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C352232Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/352232159BKVol. 3enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481450218/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C327992https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C327992Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/327992159BKVol. 1enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481450157/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=A National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds.
Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves.

Running. That's all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons—it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems—and running away from them—until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who sees something in Ghost: crazy natural talent. If Ghost can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. Can Ghost harness his raw talent for speed, or will his past finally catch up to him?]]>https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2582868https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2582868Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2582868980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481450171/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C341474https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C341474Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/341474159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781484787489/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C333173https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C333173Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/333173159BOOK_CDVol. 1enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508230489/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C315795https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C315795Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/315795159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481463331/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C436949https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C436949Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/436949159BKSuspendedenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781665918466/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc="An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger." —Booklist (starred review)
"Astonishing." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A tour de force." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner
An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017
A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017
A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds's electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.
A cannon. A strap.
A piece. A biscuit.
A burner. A heater.
A chopper. A gat.
A hammer
A tool
for RULE

Or, you can call it a gun. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That's where Will's now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother's gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he's after. Or does he?

As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that's when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn's gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn't know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck's in the elevator?

Just as Will's trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck's cigarette. Will doesn't know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES.

And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END...if Will gets off that elevator.

Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.]]>https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3198588https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3198588Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3198588980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508241584/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C290074https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C290074Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/290074159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442459472/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C445776https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C445776Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/445776159PICTURE_BOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534439443/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C407622https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C407622Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/407622159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534439467/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C406405https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C406405Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/406405159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534418165/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C381751https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C381751Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/381751159BKRacism, Antiracism, and Youenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316453691/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C377922https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C377922Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/377922159BKA Tale Told in Ten Blocksenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481438285/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C409191https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C409191Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/409191159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481486248/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C324914https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C324914Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/324914159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481415903/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C319207https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S159C319207Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/319207159BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442459502/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Seven starred reviews!

"Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish...This is what it could be, should be, if only we were all as lucky as Aria. Girls (and everyone) wait for your Neon!" —Judy Blume, New York Times bestselling author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. and Forever...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it—you know...it—from the guy's perspective in this stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first. "Reynolds's foray into romance is as spectacular as expected...Undoubtedly, a story for everyone" (Booklist, starred review).
Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have loved to forget if it weren't for the dog's owner: Aria. Dressed in sweats, a t-shirt, hair in a ponytail. Aria. Way more than fine.

Twenty-four weeks ago: Neon's dad insists on talking to him about tenderness and intimacy. Neon and Aria are definitely in love, and while they haven't taken that next big step...yet, they've starting talking about...that.

Twenty-four days ago: Neon's mom finds her—gulp—bra in his room. Hey! No judging! Those hook thingies are complicated! So he'd figured he'd better practice, what with the big day only a month away.

Twenty-four minutes ago: Neon leaves his shift at work at his dad's bingo hall, making sure to bring some chicken tenders for Aria. They're not candlelight and they definitely aren't caviar, but they are her favorite.

And right this second? Neon is locked in Aria's bathroom, completely freaking out because twenty-four seconds from now he and Aria are about to...about to... Well, they won't do anything if he can't get out of his own head (all the advice, insecurities, and what ifs) and out of this bathroom!]]>https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10480805https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10480805Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10480805980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781665961295/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to the hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, jam-packed with illustrations by Raúl the Third!
Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way—then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He's Stuntboy. He's got the moves. And the saves. Except. There's been one major fail.

He couldn't save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don't talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the frets.

What's also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate floors in their apartment building. He's never fully with one parent or the other. He's in-between, all the time. The in-between time. And the elevator is busted, so to get between floors means getting past the bullies who hang in the stairwells.

So when Portico and new friend, Herbert, and best best friend, Zola, discover an empty apartment, unlocked, they are psyched. It's a perfect hideout, and hangout, and it's not half anyone's...it's all theirs. So they decide to make it their own...let's say with stunts of the drawing kind. Problem is, that gives some Grown Up People the frets, which leads to double frets for Portico. And he's not sure his arsenal of stunts can combat that.]]>https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9055157https://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9055157Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://friscolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9055157980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508246299/MC.GIF&client=friscopl&type=xw12&oclc=