If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. “I just think we have to be honest about where we are culturally,” the acclaimed author tells PEOPLE Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books ...

During troubled times, books and stories are sometimes seen as a distraction from more important matters, says Jason Reynolds. “I hear this. It’s like, ‘We don’t have time for books,’ says the ...

Jason Reynolds and I avoided books like we avoided police officers growing up in the 1990s. Because we hated reading, we were seen as the problem. But the problem has always been the books, not the ...