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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Jason Reynolds for the win all day every day. ( ) This book is uplifting and hopeful. Indeed, it is so for everyone that needs reassurance, understanding, and words of encouragement. All within various stages of your life. My favorite lines were, "Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines--JUMP ANYWAY." This was a pleasure to read and is perfect for anyone in life. The author recounts that they thought they would be a millionaire by 25 but instead moved back home to his mom's place with a pile of debt. It acknowledges the failures and is grounded in reality. However, the tone remains hopeful. As though through your resilience, you can make it. A letter/poem written to himself and everyone frustrated that they haven't reached their dream yet. An encouragement that no one holds the answer to their own personal fulfillment, but that life is an adventure to challenge you, to make you grow, and that time might ultimately highlight your passions and set your direction. Recommend for middle school age and up. This quick read pulls the heart strings of frustration and hopelessness of those (everyone) questioning why they don't have a dream or have not reached the one they think they should have by now. Reynolds normalizes that experience by addressing all people as either being in the same place or experiencing these same thoughts as some point in their lives. He then sets the challenge to recognize that any step in any direction is a leap of courage towards a dream yet discovered. That the journey is the most important part. This would be the book to hand any preteen and older person, especially those questioning existence or transitioning through coming-of-age events such as high school or college graduations. Although "Oh, the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss is the book most gifted at educational institutions' graduations, this little gem of wisdom may take up space on the night table of life. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:"A lyrical masterpiece." â??School Library Journal (starred review) Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the young dreamers of the world. For Every One is exactly that: for every one. For every one person. For every one who has a dream. But especially for every kid. The kids who dream of being better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than they almost dare to imagine. Kids who are like Jason Reynolds, a self-professed dreamer. Jason does not claim to know how to make dreams come true; he has, in fact, been fighting on the front line of his own battle to make his own dreams a reality. He expected to make it when he was sixteen. Then eighteen. Then twenty-five. Now, some of those expectations have been realized. But others, the most important ones, lay ahead, and a lot of them involve kids, how to inspire them: All the kids who are scared to dream, or don't know how to dream, or don't dare to dream because they've NEVER seen a dream come true. Jason wants kids to know that dreams take time. They involve countless struggles. But no matter how many times a dreamer gets beat down, the drive and the passion and the hope never fully extinguishesâ??because simply having the dream is the start you need, or you won't get anywhere anyway, and that is when you have to take a leap of faith. A pitch-perfect graduation, baby, or inspirational gift for anyone who needs to me reminded of their own abilitiesâ?? No library descriptions found. |
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