Long Way Down

Longlist, National Book Awards 2017 for Young People's Literature

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ISBN 9781481438254
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster
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Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books for children and young adults. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow and two-time National Book Award Finalist, Jason is best known for his novels All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), the Track series, and Long Way Down, which received Newbery, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Honors. More about this author >

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An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award Finalist and New York Times 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.

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