#A long way down book summary full#

South Carolina Association of School Librarians' Young Adult Book AwardД®vergreen Teen Book Award for Middle School Oklahoma LIbrary Association's Sequoyah Book Award for High School YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Michigan Library Association's Thumbs Up! Award National Book Award for Young People's Literature NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens International Literacy Association's Young Adults' Choices Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult LiteratureДЄmerican Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young AdultsДЄssociation for Library Service to Children Notable Children's BooksД¬ooperative Children's Book Center Choice for Fiction for Young Adults The Bulletin of the Center for ChildrenвЂ™s Books Blue Ribbon TIME added it to their '100 Best YA Books of All Time' list, and Buzzfeed named it one of the best 30 young adult books of the decade. The Washington Post included it in their list of '50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017.' Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Paste, Buzzfeed, Horn Book, and School Library Journal named Long Way Down one of the best young adult books of the year. In reviews, the book was called 'astonishing,' 'a tour de force,' 'powerful,' and 'intense.' The book received starred reviews from Booklist, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Horn Book, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, as well as positive reviews from Shelf Awareness. Long Way Down was a New York Times best seller and Junior Library Guild selection.

#A long way down book summary full#

The full story takes place over the course of a minute. Most of the ghosts' stories revolve around that third rule, wherein one person died because they killed someone who killed someone connected to their family, creating a continuous cycle of hurt. As Will rides the elevator down from his eighth-floor apartment, a new person, who is dead, gets on on each floor and tells a story about their lives, all connected to three rules of the neighborhood: William Holloman is ready to exact vengeance on the person who murdered his older brother, Shawn. The weight of so many children-more specifically, so many black and brown children-jumping on this soiled American mattress, poverty, illiteracy, and prejudice serving as the coils.

The weight of dehumanization, of being stripped of personhood because of instinctual moments and feelings, unfettered. The weight of fear, and the feeling of insignificance. The weight of community codes, family dynamic, tradition. Not just the weight of gun violence, but the weight of anger bearing down on fragile backs. Long Way Down is meant to help us all recognize the weight of it.

knew his death had changed chemically, and that could do, perhaps, what never knew could do before. Speaking of the moment, he said he and his friends felt 'an anger, a pain, like a cancer metastasizing by the second, spreading around and through. In 2003 when Reynolds was 19, he learned that a friend had been murdered. Reynolds held the idea for Long Way Down for years before finally writing it.