Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds was an interesting read. Told in 10 short stories, it is a picture of the lives of 10 students after the bell rings and they begin their walk home. The reader gets a view into the inner lives and thoughts of these students and the challenges they face. The opening line: This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy-- really grabbed my interest, but I felt it set the reader up for a bit of a disappointment at the end. I kept waiting for the bus to fall (and it did, metaphorically), so I probably missed some of the nuance in the stories. Still, it was a good read, if a bit unexciting.
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