Long Way Down
About this book
A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s “tour de force” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse takes place in sixty potent seconds: the time it takes a kid to go down an elevator—and decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES:No. 1: Crying. Don’t. No matter what.No. 2: Snitching Don’t. No matter what.No. 3: Revenge Do. No matter what.So fifteen-year-old Will puts a gun in the waistband of his jeans and sets out to do just that. Avenge his brother. But when he gets on the elevator, it inexplicably stops on every floor, and each time, a different person—each connected to his brother—steps on. And each person gives Will a bigger piece of the story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator.Not to mention that each person who gets on that elevator is…dead.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.
Reader Profile
4.4/5 · 538 readers · 208 pages · ≈ 3 h 51 m · Easy
How long does it take to read Long Way Down?
About ≈ 3 h 51 m — 208 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Long Way Down?
208 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Long Way Down?
It sits on the Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Fiction shelves.
Is Long Way Down in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Long Way Down?
Jason Reynolds (1983–0).