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| Original Title: | Long Way Down |
| ISBN: | 1481438255 (ISBN13: 9781481438254) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2018), National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature (2017), Odyssey Award Nominee (2018), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2017), Edgar Award for Best Young Adult (2018) Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2018), South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2020), Flicker Tale Children's Book Award for Young Adult (2019), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2019), Evergreen Teen Book Award Nominee for Middle School (2020), Coretta Scott King Book Award Nominee for Author Honor (2018), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2018), Lincoln Award Nominee (2020), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2017), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2019), NAACP Image Award Nominee for Youth/Teens (2018) |
Jason Reynolds
Hardcover | Pages: 306 pages Rating: 4.32 | 45649 Users | 9273 Reviews
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An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning 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. 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. 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. Revenge. 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? 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? 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. 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 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.
Define Containing Books Long Way Down
| Title | : | Long Way Down |
| Author | : | Jason Reynolds |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 306 pages |
| Published | : | October 24th 2017 by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Poetry. Contemporary. Fiction. Realistic Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 45649 Users | 9273 ReviewsRate Containing Books Long Way Down
ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES:They weren't meant to be broken.They were meant for the broken to follow. Ive always loved stories written in verse, so when I heard about this own-voice tale of the struggles that toxic masculinity and systemic racism place upon young black men, I was immediately interested. I wanted to focus on supporting as many new-to-me black authors as possible in February, and Jason Reynolds was at the very top of my list. This man has a writing voice that absolutely needsThis was pure brilliance. I was sucked in and finished before I knew it.
Long Way Down is the story of 15 year old Will, whose older brother was just killed. Will must decide if hell follow neighborhood code to keep quiet and seek revenge on Shawns murderer, or if hell make another decision. He gets Shawns gun and begins the elevator ride from his apartment down to the ground floor. Along the way, ghosts of Wills past (family, friends, and acquaintances) hop on board to share their stories and question his motives. This was a short read, written in verse. While Ive
This was so so emotional and brutal and just wow. I'm kind of torn with what to think though because I didn't really understand the ending?! I read it twice and I'm still not entirely sure what happened. MAYBE THIS IS JUST ME!??Anyway! It's a book about violence and murder and it's so freaking sad. Basically Will's brother Shawn was just shot and killed and Will gets his gun and goes out for revenge. But he gets in the elevator to go downstairs and shoot this guy...and the elevator just fills
Such a fast and powerful read. Wow.
Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend. A haunting cautionary tale delivered in verse, in which fifteen-year-old Will is forced to consider the potential consequences of his actions as he, armed with a gun and seeking revenge, waits for the elevator in his building to reach the ground floor. THEN THE YELLOW TAPEthat says DO NOT CROSSgets put up, and there's nothing left to do but go home. That tape lets people knowthat this is a murder scene, as
You know when you havent fully grasped the story they way you would have wanted to because youre reading too fast and you just know that there are underlying gems that you are missing out on, but you cant stop reading? This was that. Im pretty sure there was so much more I couldve extracted had I slowed down. But I couldnt. This book caters perfectly for younger readers. For readers who perhaps dont find reading that fascinating or find it difficult discover books that reflect their
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