Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel

by Jason Reynolds, Danica Novgorodoff

Genres: Young Adult; YA Social Themes; YA Coming of Age; YA Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

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…

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Release date: October 13, 2020

Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Print pages: 208