Jason Reynolds Presents TWENTY FOUR SECONDS FROM NOW...

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center

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. Jason 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 BlumeTwenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have loved to forget if it weren’t for the dog’s owner: Aria. Dressed in sweats, a t-shirt, hair in a ponytail. Aria. Way more than fine.Twenty-four weeks ago: Neon’s dad insists on talking to him about tenderness and intimacy. Neon and Aria are definitely in love, and while they haven’t taken that next big step…yet, they’ve started talking about…that.Twenty-four days ago: Neon’s mom finds her—gulp—bra in his room. Hey! No judging! Those hook thingies are complicated! So he’d figured he’d better practice, what with the big day only a month away.Twenty-four minutes ago: Neon leaves his shift at work at his dad’s bingo hall, making sure to bring some chicken tenders for Aria. They’re not candlelight and they definitely aren’t caviar, but they are her favorite.And right this second? Neon is locked in Aria’s bathroom, completely freaking out because twenty-four seconds from now he and Aria are about to…about to… Well, they won’t do anything if he can’t get out of his own head (all the advice, insecurities, and what ifs) and out of this bathroom!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 <a href="https://www.jasonwritesbooks.com/" title="https://www.jasonwritesbooks.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">JasonWritesBooks.com.</a>

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