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Ain't Burned All the Bright

Jason Reynolds

Illustrator: Jason Griffin

Ages: 12+

Published: 2022

Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-5344-3946-7

Keywords: African Americans, COVID-19, Black Lives Matter

A powerful look at the life of a Black family during what appears to be the COVID pandemic. Striking, impassioned mixed-media illustrations in Moleskine notebooks.