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    Lu
    Lu
    Lu
    Audiobook4 hours

    Lu

    Written by Jason Reynolds

    Narrated by Guy Lockard

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    “Pure gold.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
    “The perfect anchor leg for a well-run literary relay.” —Kirkus Reviews

    SELECTED AS ONE OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION’S 2019 TOP TEN AMAZING AUDIOBOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS!

    Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds.

    Lu was born to be cocaptain of the Defenders. Well, actually, he was born albino, but that’s got nothing to do with being a track star. Lu has swagger, plus the talent to back it up, and with all that—not to mention the gold chains and diamond earrings—no one’s gonna outshine him.

    Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu’s way—literally and not-so-literally—and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means.

    Expect the unexpected in this final event in Jason Reynold’s award-winning and bestselling Track series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781508246176
    Author

    Jason Reynolds

    Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; Stamped; As Brave as You; For Every One; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy, in the Meantime; Ain’t Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

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    • 5/5
      Great good I love it so much I do yes
    • 5/5
      I’m so sad, I don’t want this to be the last book in the Track series. However, I’m grateful for having known these characters and been blessed to share their lives in these stories. Jason Reynold’s writing is the BEST! He is the master of dialogue, painting his characters with real voices, vocabularies, and thoughts. The power and variety of similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeia he uses are delightfully original and a source of awe for this wannabe writer. My first book read of Jason’s was Long Way Down , followed by The Boy in the Black Suit, and then his book, For Every One, jump started my writing again on the morning I finished that book.
      His collaboration with Guy Lockhart, in voicing the audiobooks lifts the words off the page and into the heart of the listener. So, get busy and find Jason’s books and share them with everyone you know who has eyes, ears, and a heart of good writing and great characters. Now, I’m off to read or listen to the rest of Jason’s books.

    • 5/5
      Darn you, Jason Reynolds! There was quite a lot of this book where I was not enjoying Lu's personality at all, and then somewhere in the middle he turns it around on me and I end up crying _again_ at the end of _another_ one of the track series books. Good writing. Great story. Fearless tackling of hard issues, like becoming a reformed drug dealer and trying to come to terms with the repercussions of your actions. Like hitting deep on the themes of bullying and unkindness and how to take our armor off, even when it leaves you vulnerable. Like how positive family dynamics can still cause bad feelings in a community, because not everyone has that good luck. Jason Reynolds. He just never slows down.
    • 3/5
      Lu, the last book in Jason Reynold's track series, is okay, but none of the rest of the series lived up to the brilliant first volume, "Ghost."Lu deals with being bullied because he is an albino, his farther being a reformed drug dealer, his mother being pregnant, and of course trying to win and please the coach. But I never cared as deeply about Lu, (or Patina or Sunny in their books) as I did for Ghost. And the ending of Lu felt a bit rushed, a bit artificial, and just didn't click for me.
    • 5/5
      Lu Richardson is one of the newbies on the Defenders track team, and a good runner who's starting to learn hurdles. His parents have always told him he was like lightning - a miracle, since they weren't supposed to be able to have kids, and doubly surprising as an albino. But now, they have surprising news for him: he's going to be a big brother. Will he still be himself, the only Lu, now that maybe he isn't so special?This was such a great wrap up to the series. Most of those can be read on their own, but this one has so many call backs to previous books that I think it really should be read at the end. Lu learns a lot about integrity, what it means to be "cool", and how long hurtful words can last, in this fabulous wrap up.
    • 4/5
      I missed books 2 and 3 of this series, but I still was able to enjoy the story of Lu and The Defenders push to the championship. Lu learns and practices what it is to be a person of integrity, he grows closer with his family. His mom is a fruit artist and he serves as her assistant. He is an albino and that presents challenges to him.
    • 4/5
      Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means.