Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds From a National Book Award finalist and New York Times-bestselling author comes a fiercely stunning novel that takes place in 60 potent seconds--the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not hes going to murder the guy who shot and killed his brother. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents 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 Reynoldss fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds--the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not hes 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. Thats 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. Thats where Wills now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brothers gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who hes 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 thats when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawns gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didnt know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Bucks in the elevator? Just as Wills trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Bucks cigarette. Will doesnt 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. Author Biography Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; Stamped; As Brave as You; For Every One; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy, in the Meantime; Aint Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com. Review Fifteen-year-old Will, immobilized with grief when his older brother Shawn is shot and killed, slowly comes to mull The Rules in his head. There are three: dont cry, dont snitch, and "if someone you love / gets killed, / find the person / who killed / them and / kill them." So Will locates Shawns gun, leaves his familys eighth-floor apartment, and--well, here is where this intense verse novel becomes a gripping drama, as on each floor of the descending elevator Will is joined by yet another victim or perpetrator in the chain of violence that took his brothers life. Shawns best friend Buck gets into the elevator on seven; Dani, Wills friend from childhood, gets in on six; Will and Shawns uncle Mark gets in on five, in a cloud of cigarette smoke. And so it goes, each stop of the elevator adding to the chorus of ghosts (including Will and Shawns father), each one with his or her perspective on The Rules. The poetry is stark, fluently using line breaks and page-turns for dramatic effect; the last of these reveals the best closing line of a novel this season. Read alone (though best aloud), the novel is a high-stakes moral thriller; its also a perfect if daring choice for readers theater. --The Horn Book **STARRED** "July/August 2017"Spanning a mere one minute and seven seconds, Reynolds new free-verse novel is an intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger. First, 15-year-old Will Holloman sets the scene by relating his brothers, Shawns, murder two days prior--gunned down while buying soap for their mother. Next, he lays out The Rules: dont cry, dont snitch, always get revenge. Now that the reader is up to speed, Will tucks Shawns gun into his waistband and steps into an elevator, steeled to execute rule number three and shoot his brothers killer. Yet, the simple seven-floor descent becomes a revelatory trip. At each floor, the doors open to admit someone killed by the same cycle of violence that Wills about to enter. Hes properly freaked out, but as the seconds tick by and floors count down, each new occupant drops some knowledge and pushes Will to examine his plans for that gun. Reynolds concise verses echo like shots against the white space of the page, their impact resounding. He peels back the individual stories that led to this moment in the elevator and exposes a culture inured to violence because poverty, gang life, or injustice has left them with no other option. In this all too real portrait of survival, Reynolds goes toe-to-toe with where, or even if, love and choice are allowed to exist. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A noisy buzz always surrounds this critically acclaimed authors work, and the planned tour and promo campaign will boost this books to a siren call.--Booklist Online, STARRED REVIEW "July 1st, 2017"The newest work for teens by Jason Reynolds (author of As Brave As You and Ghost, and 2017 Indies First spokesperson) begins with 15-year-old William speaking directly to the reader: "I havent/ told nobody the story/ Im about to tell you./ And truth is, you probably aint/ gon believe it either/ gon think Im lying/ or Im losing it, / but Im telling you, / this story is true." The day before yesterday, Wills older brother, Shawn, went to the other side of their largely black neighborhood--purportedly crossing rival lines--to get their mother special soap for her eczema. Shortly after Shawn left, Will and his friend, who were talking outside, heard shots. They immediately did what they had been trained to do: "Pressed our lips to the/ pavement and prayed/ the boom, followed by/ the buzz of a bullet, / aint meet us." Afterward, Will says, "me and Tony/ waited like we always do, / for the rumble to stop, / before picking our heads up/ and poking our heads out/ to count the bodies./ This time/ there was only one" Shawn. "[I]f the blood/ inside you," Will tells the reader, "is on the inside/ of someone else/ you never want to/ see it on the outside of/ them." Now, two days later, Will is heartbroken and desperate as he abides by "The Rules" hes been taught all of his life; he wont cry and he wont snitch. And, most importantly, he plans to follow through with the third rule: "if someone you love/ gets killed, / find the person/ who killed/ them and/ kill them." He finds a gun in Shawns dresser--one bullet under a full clip--and sets off to kill the person who killed his brother. With the gun tucked into the waistband of his pants, Will gets on the elevator at 9:08:02 a.m. The next 200-plus pages of action take place between the time Will enters the elevator and when it reaches the lobby a moment later, at 9:09:09 a.m. As Will takes the long trip down, a new person boards at every floor. Each new person is a friend or loved one from Wills past; each new person is dead, a victim of gun violence. As the ghosts of those killed congregate in the elevator to tell Will their stories, their interconnected tales are untangled and Will begins to see how the things he thinks he knows may not be true at all, and that The Rules just perpetuate the cycle of violence and keep everyone down. Wills trip between floors and through time is powerful and painful. Reynoldss work is rich with symbolism, the verse lending a feeling of immediacy to the 300-page, 60-second journey. Long Way Down is an intense read with a beautifully ambiguous ending that highlights the humanity of those who are regularly touched by and contribute to gun violence. --Siân Gaetano, childrens and YA editor, Shelf Awareness Shelf Talker: Will is visited by the ghosts of victims of gun violence as he prepares to kill someone himself in Jason Reynoldss thoughtful and captivating Long Way Down.--Shelf Awareness "September 6, 2017" Review Quote Will, 15, is following his neighborhoods well-established rules--dont cry, dont snitch, but do get revenge "if someone you love/ gets killed"--when he leaves his apartment, intent on killing whoever murdered his older brother, Shawn. Hes emboldened by the gun tucked into his waistband: "I put my hand behind my back/ felt the imprint/ of the piece, like/ another piece/ of me/ an extra vertebra,/ some more/ backbone." As Will makes his way to the ground floor of his building, the elevator stops to accept passengers, each an important figure from his past, all victims of gun violence. Are these ghosts? Or is it Wills subconscious at work, forcing him to think about what he intends to do and what it will accomplish? The story unfolds in the time it takes for the elevator to descend, and it ends with a two-word question that hits like a punch to the gut. Written entirely in spare verse, this is a tour de force from a writer who continues to demonstrate his skill as an exceptionally perceptive chronicler of what it means to be a black teen in America. Excerpt from Book Long Way Down DONT NOBODY believe nothing these days which is why I havent told nobody the story Im about to tell you. And truth is, you probably aint gon believe it either gon think Im lying or Im losing it, but Im telling you, this story is true. It happened to me. Really. It did. It so did. Details ISBN1481438255 Author Jason Reynolds Short Title LONG WAY DOWN Pages 320 Audience Age 13-17 Publisher Atheneum Books Language English ISBN-10 1481438255 ISBN-13 9781481438254 Format Hardcover DEWEY FIC Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-10-24 UK Release Date 2017-10-24 Imprint Atheneum Books Audience Teenage / Young adult We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:124950545;

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