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Long Way Down

By Jason Reynolds
Read by Jason Reynolds

About The Book

Jason Reynolds’s Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff.

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.

But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there’s always someone else who knows to follow the rules…

About The Author
James J. Reddington
Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. Reynolds is also the 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include When I Was the Greatest, The Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Look Both Ways, and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

Awards and Honors
  • ALA Newbery Honor Book
  • ALA Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
  • ALA Notable Children's Books
  • CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
  • Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Master List
  • CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
  • ILA Young Adults' Choices
  • ALA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
  • Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
  • NYPL Best Books for Teens
  • NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
  • YALSA Teens Top Ten (TTT) Nominee
  • Great Lakes Great Books Master List (MI)
  • ILA Notable Books for a Global Society
  • High School Sequoyah Book award Master List (OK)
  • North Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee
  • Edgar Allan Poe Award
  • ALA Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
  • Amelia Elizabeth Walden Finalist (NCTE/ALAN)
  • ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults - Top Ten
  • Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Selection Title
  • ALA Notable Children's Recording
  • Odyssey Honor for Audio
  • National Book Award Longlist
  • TAYSHAS Reading List Top Ten Title (TX)
  • Pennsylvania Reader's Choice Award Nominee
  • Amazing Audiobooks for YA
  • Wisconsin State Reading Association's Reading List
  • Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Nominee
  • Virginia Readers’ Choice Award
  • Walter Dean Myers Award
  • Arnold Adoff Poetry Award
  • Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee
  • Intermediate Sequoyah Book Award Master List (OK)
  • Great Texas Mosquito List

Long Way Down

By Jason Reynolds
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