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Long Way Down
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Long Way Down
<b>“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.†—<i>Booklist</i> (starred review)<br /> “Astonishing.†—<i>Kirkus Reviews </i>(starred review)<br /> “A tour de force.†—<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br /> <br /><b>A Newbery Honor Book<br /> A Coretta Scott King Honor Book<br /> A Printz Honor Book</b><br /> <b>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature<br /> Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature<br /> Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award</b><br /> <b>An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction<br /> Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner<br /> An <i>Entertainment Weekly </i>Best YA Book of 2017<br /> A <i>Vulture </i>Best YA Book of 2017<br /> A <i>Buzzfeed </i>Best YA Book of 2017</b><br /> <br /><b>An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.</b><br /><br />A cannon. A strap.<br /> A piece. A biscuit.<br /> A burner. A heater.<br /> A chopper. A gat.<br /> A hammer<br /> A tool<br /> for RULE<br /> <br />Or, you can call it a gun. That’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. <i>Revenge</i>. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he?<br /> <br />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 that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator?<br /> <br />Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’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.<br /> <br />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 END…if Will gets <i>off </i>that elevator.<br /> <br />Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, <i>Long Way Down</i> is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds. Country USA Manufacturer Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Binding Kindle Edition ReleaseDate 2017-10-24T00:00:00.000Z Format Kindle eBook
