Wars were fought for them, and won by them.Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armour that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soil-less ground. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilisation alike. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.Hardback. A story that might never know an END.if WILL gets off that elevator. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck's cigarette. But Buck's in the elevator? Just as Will's trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. Will didn't know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. And the only one who could have fired Shawn's gun was Shawn. And that's when Will sees that one bullet is missing. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded.
Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. That's where Will's now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother's gun. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 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. From a National Book Award finalist and New York Times-bestselling author comes a fiercely stunning novel that takes place in 60 potent seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who shot and killed his brother.
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