If a loved one is killed, find the culprit and kill him!

No crying!

No whispering!

Take revenge!

An ode to the "down with the damned guns" movement. Jason Reynolds' New York Times bestseller is a violently shocking novel that is approx. takes place in sixty effective seconds. That's how long it takes a boy to decide if he wants revenge on the guy who killed his brother.

Stukker.
Target tool.
Flint.
Stiletto.
Sling-shot.
Spitting.
Pocket cannon.
Steel maris.
Iron.
Device
for RULE No. 3.

Or we can call it a weapon. This is what fifteen-year-old Will slipped into his jeans. His brother Shawn was recently murdered and Will knows the rules. No crying! No whispering! Take revenge! That's why he sets out with the pistol, the weapon that still belonged to his brother. He angrily gets into the elevator on the eighth. You know who to look for. Or not?.

The Long Way Down uses short, intense, choppy, narrative poems to take a fast, angry, dazzlingly amazing look at the subject of teenagers and gun violence, as only Jason Reynolds can.

"Beautiful. Reynolds is a true literary genius." Angie Thomas

"Powerful. An important book." SLJ

"Raw, emotional, shocking." Kirkus

"The poems echo like gunshots on the blank white of the pages." Booklist