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Renowned Author Jason Reynolds In-Person at Laney College to Present His New Young Adult Novel

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Sunday, October 13, 2024 - 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Cost: $25*
*1 seat + 1 book = $25 (+ fees); 2 seats + 1 book = $30.00 (+ fees)
Laney College, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center | 900 Fallon St, Oakland

Event Details

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Join us at 3:00 PM on Sunday, October 13th for a very special event with award winning and New York Times bestselling author JASON REYNOLDS. He will present his latest Young Adult novel Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .: A Love Story.
This is a ticketed event and will take place at the Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center at Laney College in Oakland.
“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
JASON REYNOLDS is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include The Boy in the Black Suit, Stamped, the “Track” series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Look Both Ways, Stuntboy, and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

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Cost: $25*
*1 seat + 1 book = $25 (+ fees); 2 seats + 1 book = $30.00 (+ fees)
Categories: In Person, Kids & Families, Lectures & Workshops, Literature, Other, Theater & Performance
Venue: Laney College, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center
Address: 900 Fallon St, Oakland