Jason Reynolds' new novel Long Way Down is ... by a few visitors on the way down to the ground floor. "Will is growing up in a community where there are certain rules," Reynolds says.

Read an excerpt from National Book Award Finalist Jason Reynolds's innovative new YA novel Long Way Down, which takes place ... And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching.

Another dash of unorthodoxy: the book unspools in free verse and is set in an elevator. “Long Way Down” was a finalist ... while Lucy Kitada will handle the picture for Michael De Luca ...