Eleven-year-old Genie is... Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. S&S/Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6333-1 In this painful and all-too-timely book, two authors—one black ...

Jason Reynolds and I avoided books like we avoided ... But the problem has always been the books, not the children. Kids “don’t actually hate books,” Jason says, “they hate boredom.” ...