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The Stacks

Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jason Reynolds is a New York Times best selling author and a National Book Award finalist. He writes novels and poetry for young people, and they'll all tell you Jason just "gets it". We sit down with Jason to discuss his new book Look Both Ways, how his love of music led to a career as an author, and what book he would assign in high school.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi guys it's Tracy and before we get to today's episode I wanted to tell you about our holiday book drive that runs November 30th through December 14th.

0:07.2

We are buying books for Rocketship Delta Prep a school in Antiet California where 85% of the students live in poverty.

0:15.0

The school doesn't have the funds to supply books to students, so many of the books that kids are reading in class are just photocopies of books stapled together.

0:23.2

So obviously I thought we could help.

0:25.0

We're gonna be buying books

0:26.2

so that every single student at that school

0:28.5

leaves on the last day of the semester

0:30.6

with their very own book.

0:32.1

If you want to participate participate there is a link in

0:33.7

the bio to the wish list that was put together by the teachers of Rocketship

0:37.2

Delta Prep. For every book you donate you are entered to win a prize and we will be

0:41.7

giving away at least one prize every single day

0:44.0

for this 15 day book drive. Once you've given a book you are entered to win for

0:48.6

every single day. To be in the know about what the prizes are and how we're making progress on the book drive

0:54.0

Make sure you're following the stacks on social media at the stacks pod on Instagram at the

0:58.8

stacks pod underscore on Twitter and the stacksacks Podcast on Facebook.

1:03.0

There are more details in the link in the show notes,

1:05.8

so please check it all out

1:07.4

and I want to thank you in advance

1:08.7

for listening to the show

1:09.7

and participating in this book drive.

1:12.4

Okay, now let's get to the episode.

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