“Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 24 Oct. 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. A story that might never know an END…if WILL gets off that elevator. 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. 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. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. 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. author: Jason Reynolds publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books First Edition edition (October 24, 2017) binding: Hardcover, 320 pages ISBN-13: 978. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. Jason Reynolds reads from his YA verse novel, Long Way Down, beautifully illustrated by Chris Priestley.Excerpted from the audiobook: Long Way Down.Published. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun.

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.

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