2018 Odyssey Honor Audiobook

A YALSA 2018 Amazing Audiobooks for ADULTS Selection

ALSC 2018 Well known Children’s Recordings List

A Newbery Honor Book

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book

A Printz Honor Reserve

A LA Times Book Reward Winner for Small Adult Literature

Longlisted for the Country wide Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Winner from the Walter Dean Myers Honor

An Edgar Award Winner for Best Youthful Adult Fiction

Parents’ Choice Yellow metal Award Winner

An Entertainment Regular about GOOD WAY Down Best YA Book of 2017

A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017

A Buzzfeed Best YA Publication of 2017

INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WRITER!

An ode to Put the Damn Weapons Down, that is New York Occasions bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely spectacular novel that occurs in sixty powerful seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide if he’s going to murder the man who killed his brother.

A cannon. A strap.

A piece. A biscuit.

A burner. A heating unit.

A chopper. A gat.

A hammer

A tool

for RULE

Or, you are able to contact it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his denims. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the guidelines. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the trunk waistband of his jeans, the weapon that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh ground, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is definitely who gave Shawn the weapon before Will got the weapon. Buck tells Will to check on that the weapon is even packed. And that’s when Will views that one bullet is normally missing. And the only person who could possess fired Shawn’s weapon was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his weapon. Bigger huh. BUCK IS Deceased. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the entranceway to the next flooring opens. A teenage gal gets on, waves aside the smoke cigarettes from Deceased Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t understand her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets got cut through the playground, and Will got tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, therefore what she wants to know, on that 5th floor elevator stop, is certainly, what if Will, Will using the weapon shoved in the back waistband of his denim jeans, MISSES.

Therefore it goes, the complete good way down, as the elevator halts on each ground, and at each stop someone linked to his sibling gets to give Will a piece to a larger story than the one he thinks he knows. A tale that might never understand an END…if WILL gets off that elevator.

Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, GOOD WAY Down is an easy and furious, dazzlingly outstanding look at teenage gun assault, as could just find out by Jason Reynolds.