5/20/2023 0 Comments Ghost by jason![]() ![]() It’ll make you like sports books, even if you can’t generally stand them. It makes you care about a kid who keeps messing up over and over and over again. Now Jason Reynolds, a young adult author until this year, has produced a middle grade novel centered on that must unlikely of sports: track. If our Newbery winning The Crossover by Kwame Alexander taught us anything, it was that. Mike Lupica and Tim Green may rule the field but that doesn’t mean other people don’t make a lot out of athletics. Horse books, for example, just sat on our shelves untouched. When I served on a yearly committee of librarians in New York I’d notice that some books were difficult to get anyone to read. They’ll travel outside of them from time to time but always they return to the books that they like the most. This is a generalization, but in my experience librarians really enjoy reading within their comfort zones. Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) ![]()
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