At one point, he had three works on the New York Times best-seller lists. Who does that? Jason Reynolds. And ask him, he’ll tell you he’s just getting started. Kendi is a National Book Award ...

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...