Jason Reynolds' new novel Long Way Down is focused on a moment of decision ... these environments to have no excuses not to read the book. The truth of the matter is that I recognize that I ...

Raw and piercing, Long Way Down—the recipient of a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Honor and Michael L. Printz Honor—provides young people with the language to process violence and trauma.

Read an excerpt from National Book Award Finalist Jason Reynolds's innovative new YA novel Long Way Down, which takes place over just 60 seconds on an elevator, and is written entirely in verse.

Another dash of unorthodoxy: the book unspools in free verse and is set in an elevator. “Long Way Down” was a finalist for the National Book Award. De Luca is an Oscar nominee whose credits ...