{"product_id":"long-way-down-hardcover","title":"Long Way Down - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Newbery Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Coretta Scott King Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Printz Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Best YA Book of All Time (2021)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Jason Reynolds's \"tour de force\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill's older brother, Shawn, has been shot.\u003cbr\u003e Dead.\u003cbr\u003e Will feels a sadness so great, he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo. 1: Crying.\u003cbr\u003e Don't.\u003cbr\u003e No matter what. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo. 2: Snitching\u003cbr\u003e Don't.\u003cbr\u003e No matter what. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo. 3: Revenge\u003cbr\u003e Do.\u003cbr\u003e No matter what. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo 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 \u003ci\u003eoff \u003c\/i\u003ethat elevator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot to mention that each person who gets on that elevator is...dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Reynolds is a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 People's Literature. His many books include \u003ci\u003eAll American Boys\u003c\/i\u003e (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was the Greatest\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Black Suit\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStamped\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAs Brave as You\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFor Every One\u003c\/i\u003e; the Track series (\u003ci\u003eGhost, Patina, Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLu\u003c\/i\u003e); \u003ci\u003eLook Both Ways\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStuntboy, in the Meantime\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAin't Burned All the Bright \u003c\/i\u003e(recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Jason. Mine Too.\u003c\/i\u003e (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); \u003ci\u003eTwenty-Four Seconds from Now...\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLong Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, \u003ci\u003eThere Was a Party for Langston\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Coretta Scott King Award (2018)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Michael L. 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