As Brave As You

  • Author: Jason Reynolds
  • Narrator: Guy Lockard
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 7:01:53
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Synopsis

Kirkus Award Finalist
Schneider Family Book Award Winner
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally—in this “pitch-perfect contemporary novel” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by the winner of the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award.

Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he hides it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans).

How does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cook with a gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy he’s ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the house—as in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing into—a room so full of songbirds and plants that it’s almost as if it’s been pulled inside-out—he begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.

Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. It’s his fourteenth birthday, and, Grandpop says to become a man, you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Genie thinks that is AWESOME until he realizes Ernie has no interest in learning how to shoot. None. Nada. Dumbfounded by Ernie’s reluctance, Genie is left to wonder—is bravery and becoming a man only about proving something, or is it just as important to own up to what you won’t do?

Chapters

  • AsBraveAsYou 01 Title

    Duration: 32s
  • AsBraveAsYou 02 Dedication

    Duration: 10s
  • AsBraveAsYou 03 437

    Duration: 31s
  • AsBraveAsYou 04 438

    Duration: 32s
  • AsBraveAsYou 05 Ch1

    Duration: 34min
  • AsBraveAsYou 06 Ch2

    Duration: 12min
  • AsBraveAsYou 07 Ch3

    Duration: 22min
  • AsBraveAsYou 08 Ch4

    Duration: 17min
  • AsBraveAsYou 09 Ch5

    Duration: 08min
  • AsBraveAsYou 10 Ch6

    Duration: 24min
  • AsBraveAsYou 11 Ch7

    Duration: 31min
  • AsBraveAsYou 12 Ch8

    Duration: 16min
  • AsBraveAsYou 13 Ch9

    Duration: 18min
  • AsBraveAsYou 14 Ch10

    Duration: 20min
  • AsBraveAsYou 15 Ch11

    Duration: 10min
  • AsBraveAsYou 16 Ch12

    Duration: 23min
  • AsBraveAsYou 17 Ch13

    Duration: 17min
  • AsBraveAsYou 18 Ch14

    Duration: 16min
  • AsBraveAsYou 19 Ch15

    Duration: 30min
  • AsBraveAsYou 20 Ch16

    Duration: 20min
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