# Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .

**Author:** Jason Reynolds
**Grade range:** Grades 7–10
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 272
**ISBN-13:** `9781665961295`
**ISBN-10:** `1665961295`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/twenty-four-seconds-from-now
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Seven starred reviews! “Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be, if only we were all as lucky as Aria. Girls (and everyone) wait for your Neon!” —Judy Blume, New York Times bestselling author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. and Forever... #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it—you know…it—from the guy’s perspective in this stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first. “Reynolds’s foray into romance is as spectacular as expected…Undoubtedly, a story for everyone” (Booklist, starred review). Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment.

## Where this book is assigned

### Coretta Scott King Author Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2025 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2025 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2025 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2025 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)

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