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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Meet Award-Winning Author Jason Reynolds!</span><br>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Save the Date: April 13, 2016, 6:30 pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.kpl.gov/cen">Kalamazoo Public Library</a> – 315 South Rose Street<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.kpl.gov/">Kalamazoo Public Library</a> is proud to invite you to meet the 2016 winner of the inaugural
<a href="http://weneeddiversebooks.org/we-need-diverse-bookstm-announces-the-2016-winners-of-the-walter-dean-myers-award-for-outstanding-childrens-literature-young-adult-category/">
Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature</a>, Jason Reynolds!
<a href="http://kpl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=7653&lib=">Event</a> will take place on Wednesday, April 13, 6:30 pm at
<a href="http://www.kpl.gov/cen">Kalamazoo Public Library’s Central location</a> – 315 South Rose Street, Kalamazoo. Doors will open at 6 pm. This event is free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Reynolds will speak about his life experiences and what inspires him as a writer. Doors will open at 6 pm. Reynold’s books will be offered for sale by a local independent bookstore,
<a href="http://www.bookbugkalamazoo.com/">Bookbug</a>. If you have not heard Jason Reynolds speak, trust us you don’t want to miss this epic event! In the meantime, be sure to visit your local
<a href="http://www.kpl.gov/">Kalamazoo Public Library</a> location and check out his latest,
<i><a href="http://kzpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/KPL/search/results?qu=All+American+Boys&te=ILS&lm=ALLLIBS">All American Boys</a></i>!<o:p></o:p></p>
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About Jason Reynolds<br>
</b><a href="http://www.jasonwritesbooks.com/">Jason Reynolds</a> is crazy – about stories. After earning a BA in English from The University of Maryland, College Park, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where you can often find him walking the four blocks from
the train to his apartment talking to himself. Well, not really talking to himself, but just repeating character names and plot lines he thought of on the train, over and over again, because he’s afraid he’ll forget it all before he gets home. Jason is the
author of critically acclaimed <i><a href="http://kzpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/KPL/search/results/?lm=ALLLIBS&qu=When+I+was+the+greatest&te=">When I Was the Greatest</a></i>, for which he was the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for
New Talent; the Coretta Scott King Honor books <i><a href="http://kzpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/KPL/search/results/?lm=ALLLIBS&qu=Boy+in+the+Black+Suit&te=">Boy in the Black Suit</a></i> and
<i><a href="http://kzpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/KPL/search/results?qu=All+American+Boys&te=ILS&lm=ALLLIBS">All American Boys</a></i> (co-written with Brendan Kiely); and
<i><a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/As-Brave-As-You/Jason-Reynolds/9781481415903">As Brave as You</a></i>, his middle grade debut. You can find his ramblings at
<a href="http://www.jasonwritesbooks.com/">JasonWritesbooks.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Photos and more information available – contact Farrell Howe at
<a href="mailto:farrellh@kpl.gov">farrellh@kpl.gov</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Farrell Howe<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marketing & Communications Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kalamazoo Public Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">269-553-7879 | <a href="http://www.kpl.gov/"><span style="color:windowtext">www.kpl.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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