by Jason Reynolds · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781481415910
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«As Brave as You» is the young adult novel by Jason Reynolds, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in paperback (410 pages, in English).
Two brothers from Brooklyn, Genie and Ernie, spend the summer in Virginia with their grandparents. Genie discovers that his grandfather is blind and admires him for his bravery, though he notices he never leaves the house. When his grandfather proposes that Ernie learn to shoot a gun as a rite of passage, Ernie refuses, and Genie will have to decide what it means to be brave.
Novel winner of the Schneider Family Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, finalist for the National Book Award, and honor book for the Coretta Scott King Award.
Suitable for readers aged 10 and up, especially for those seeking realistic novels about family, bravery, and the transition to adulthood.
Jason Reynolds is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle grade audiences. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap and had an early focus on poetry, publishing many poetry collections before his first novel in 2014, When I Was the Greatest, which won the John Steptoe Award for New Talent.
