Jason Reynolds Books in Order

Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin tell the story of their friendship and their early years chasing art in New York. Poetry and artwork turn struggle, ambition, and collaboration into a visual memoir.

Ali is trying to stay clear of trouble, but loyalty to his friends Noodles and Needles keeps pulling him back in. This coming-of-age story follows friendship, pride, and survival in Brooklyn.

After Rashad is brutalized by a police officer, two classmates, one Black and one white, are pulled into the fallout. Their alternating perspectives show how a single act can shake a whole community.

After his mother's death, Matt wears a black suit to work at a funeral home and tries to hold his family together. A new friendship offers him a way through grief, if he will let it.

Brooklyn brothers Genie and Ernie spend the summer in rural Virginia with grandparents they barely know. What starts as a new adventure slowly becomes a lesson in family secrets, fear, and what bravery really looks like.

Castle Ghost Cranshaw can outrun almost anyone, but he is still running from a violent past. When Coach Brody spots his talent, Ghost gets a shot at the Defenders and a different future.

Fifteen-year-old Will steps into an elevator with a gun, planning revenge for his brother's murder. In sixty tense seconds, unexpected passengers force him to question the rules he has always been taught to follow.

Miles juggles family, school, friendship, romance, and his secret life as Spider-Man in Brooklyn. When suspension, nightmares, and a disturbing plot close in, he has to decide what kind of hero he can be.

Patina Jones joins the track team with plenty of speed and even more anger. Balancing school, family pressure, and team life, she must learn when to push alone and when to let others help.

This book-length poem speaks to dreamers, late bloomers, and anyone close to giving up. Reynolds writes with warmth and urgency about ambition, setbacks, and the stubborn work of believing in yourself.

Lu is the stylish, loud, talented anchor of the Defenders, and he knows it. As championships approach, hurdles on and off the track force him to rethink winning, leadership, and the swagger he hides behind.

Sunny seems easygoing on the Defenders track team, but grief and tension with his father weigh on him. When he quits running, he has to find a new event, and a new way to see himself.

Ten linked stories follow kids walking home from school, each carrying jokes, secrets, fear, grief, and small moments of courage. Together they build a lively, moving portrait of a neighborhood in motion.

Danica Novgorodoff's haunting art reimagines Reynolds's verse novel about Will, an elevator ride, and the rules of revenge. The story stays lean and tense, while the visuals deepen the grief and dread.

This remix of Ibram X. Kendi's work traces how racist ideas were built, spread, and challenged in America. Jason Reynolds gives the history urgency, humor, and a sharp focus on the choices readers face now.

This younger adaptation of Stamped guides readers through the history of racist ideas and antiracist action in America. Clear and direct, it helps kids connect the past to the choices they make right now.

Portico Reeves sees himself as a superhero protecting the people in his apartment building. While he handles neighbors, bullies, and his worry wiggles, he is also trying to survive his parents' constant fighting.

In a handful of sentences and hundreds of pages of art, Reynolds and Jason Griffin capture the pressure of being Black in America during a time marked by fear, anger, and the struggle to breathe.

Miles expects a boring day of in-school suspension, but his Spidey sense says otherwise. Trapped inside school, he uncovers a bizarre threat tied to history, power, and who gets to control the story.

A joyful picture book tribute imagines a Harlem celebration for Langston Hughes, with Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and other literary figures joining the party. The language and art make poetry feel loud, playful, and alive.

Neon is seconds away from having sex with his girlfriend Aria, and completely inside his own head. Moving back through their relationship, the novel turns nerves, tenderness, and bad advice into something funny and sweet.

Before he guided Ghost and the Defenders, Coach Brody was Otie, a track-obsessed kid in the 1980s dealing with family upheaval. A missing pair of Jordans becomes the start of a harder lesson about truth and growing up.

In early 2000s New York, Stuy and his friends start busking in the subway and unexpectedly become a sensation. Music brings them purpose and connection, even as fame and pressure at home complicate everything.