Long Way Down

Long Way Down

A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young Peopleâ€™s Literature
Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
Parentsâ€™ Choice Gold Award Winner
An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017
A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017
A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynoldsâ€™s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent secondsâ€”the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not heâ€™s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

A cannon. A strap.
A piece. A biscuit.
A burner. A heater.
A chopper. A gat.
A hammer
A tool
for RULE

Or, you can call it a gun. Thatâ€™s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. Thatâ€™s where Willâ€™s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brotherâ€™s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who heâ€™s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And thatâ€™s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawnâ€™s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didnâ€™t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buckâ€™s in the elevator? Just as Willâ€™s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buckâ€™s cigarette. Will doesnâ€™t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES.

And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an ENDâ€¦if WILL gets off that elevator.

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.
Country USA
Brand Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Manufacturer Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781481438254
ReleaseDate 2017-10-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781481438254

Country	USA
Brand	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Manufacturer	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781481438254
ReleaseDate	2017-10-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781481438254

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