![]() This isn’t an approach I usually gravitate toward, but once I got past my initial reluctance, it completely sucked me in. Long Way Down is not what I expected! For starters, I had no idea that it was written in verse. ![]() I’d been searching for examples of realistic urban fiction for teens, at the request of my son, and stumbled across a recommendation for Jason Reynolds’s books in general and Long Way Down in particular.įortunately for me, I think, I only read the back of the book before starting it, rather than the detailed synopsis above (which I’ve shortened, because I feel like it gives away way too much). ![]() I picked up Long Way Down knowing next to nothing about it. 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. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. ![]() An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times 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. ![]()
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