Long Way Down

Five starred reviews! The Newbery Honor and Printz Honor–winning masterpiece is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel!

Jason Reynolds’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is transformed into a visual powerhouse with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff. This is a story told in short, fierce staccato bursts, capturing the 60 seconds it takes for a teenager to decide whether or not he’s going to pull the trigger.

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... As Will steps onto the elevator with his brother's gun tucked into the waistband of his jeans, the people he meets on the way down will change his life forever.

A staggering achievement in the graphic novel medium. Long Way Down is an essential, heartbreaking look at gun violence and the cycle of revenge.