Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
A Newbery Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds's "tour de force" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse takes place in sixty potent seconds: the time it takes a kid to go down an elevator--and decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot.
Dead.
Will feels a sadness so great, he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES:
No. 1: Crying.
Don't.
No matter what.
No. 2: Snitching
Don't.
No matter what.
No. 3: Revenge
Do.
No matter what.
So fifteen-year-old Will puts a gun in the waistband of his jeans and sets out to do just that. Avenge his brother. But when he gets on the elevator, it inexplicably stops on every floor, and each time, a different person--each connected to his brother--steps on. And each person gives Will a bigger piece of the story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END...if Will gets off that elevator.
Not to mention that each person who gets on that elevator is...dead.
Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
JASON REYNOLDS is the author of the critically acclaimed When I Was the Greatest, for which he won the Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for Emerging Talent; the Coretta Scott King Honor books The Boy in the Black Suit and All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); As Brave As You, his middle grade debut; and Ghost, the first in a four-book series. Jason recently relocated to Washington, DC, but previously resided in Miles Morales' Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781481438261 |
| ISBN 10 | 1481438263 |
| Title | Long Way Down |
| Author | Jason Reynolds |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2019-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Commended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 2018, Commended for Coretta Scott King Award (Author) 2018, Commended for Michael L. Printz Award (Children-Y/A Fiction) 2018 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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