{"product_id":"long-way-down-jason-reynolds-hardcover","title":"Long Way Down -- Jason Reynolds, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Newbery Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoretta Scott King Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrintz Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Best YA Book of All Time (2021)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Walter Dean Myers Award\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eParents' Choice Gold Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest YA Book of 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eVulture \u003c\/i\u003eBest YA Book of 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed \u003c\/i\u003eBest YA Book of 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eRevenge\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eoff \u003c\/i\u003ethat elevator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, \u003ci\u003eLong Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jason Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Atheneum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.8\" L x 1.1\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781481438254\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Uncle Jon's Book Factory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022775828634,"sku":"9781481438254","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/3015\/4138\/files\/9781481438254.jpg?v=1774691456","url":"https:\/\/unclejonsbookfactory.com\/products\/long-way-down-jason-reynolds-hardcover","provider":"Uncle Jon's Book Factory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}