Ain't Burned All the Bright

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.

And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you'll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.

Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.04lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.01w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9781534439467
Age Range: 12-17

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 514995 / Ain't Burned All the Bright


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 11/15/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 47
Shelf Awareness 01/11/2022
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2022 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2022
School Library Journal 05/13/2022 pg. 1

About the Author
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 Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He's also the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), When I Was the Greatest, The Boy in the Black Suit, Stamped, As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Look Both Ways, and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

Jason Griffin illustrated My Name Is Jason. Mine too. and Ain't Burned All the Bright, both by Jason Reynolds. He was born in Maryland and currently creates art in Queens, New York.