Long Way Down -- Jason Reynolds

<b>A Newbery Honor Book</b><br> <b>A </b><b>Coretta Scott King Honor Book</b><br> <b>A </b><b>Printz Honor Book</b><br> <b>A <i>Time</i> Best YA Book of All Time (2021)</b><br> <b>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature</b><br> <b>Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature</b><br> <b>Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award</b><br> <b>An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction</b><br> <b>Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner</b><br> <b>An <i>Entertainment Weekly </i>Best YA Book of 2017</b><br> <b>A <i>Vulture </i>Best YA Book of 2017</b><br> <b>A <i>Buzzfeed </i>Best YA Book of 2017</b> <p/><b>An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and <i>New York Times </i>bestseller 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.</b> <p/>A cannon. A strap.<br> A piece. A biscuit.<br> A burner. A heater.<br> A chopper. A gat.<br> A hammer<br> A tool<br> for RULE <p/> 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. <i>Revenge</i>. 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