Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is a novel in verse, aimed at young adults. As well as becoming a New York Times bestseller, Long Way Down has won a string of prestigious awards, including a Newbery Honor. The action takes place in sixty seconds, as a 15-year-old boy called Will decides whether or not to shoot the person who killed his brother. The book is “dedicated to the young brothers and sisters in detention centers around the country, the ones I’ve seen and the ones I haven’t. You are loved.”
“Something ached inside me when I finished this novel, a quiet pain that still hasn’t quite left. Even now, I can feel its presence when I sit down to write, the way someone might gingerly touch the new skin of a healing wound.”
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