Long way down

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The work Long way down represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Long way down

Statement of responsibility

Jason Reynolds

Creator

• trueReynolds, Jason

Author

• trueReynolds, Jason

Subject

• Ghosts -- Fiction
• trueAfrican American teenage boys
• Brothers
• trueBrothers -- Death
• Brothers -- Fiction
• trueCity life
• Conduct of life
• Conduct of life -- Fiction
• Fiction
• trueFifteen-year-old boys
• trueGhost stories
• Ghost stories
• Ghost stories
• trueGhosts
• trueGrief
• Homicide
• Homicide -- Fiction
• Juvenile delinquency
• Juvenile delinquency -- Fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueLoss (Psychology)
• Murder
• Murder -- Fiction
• Novels in verse
• Novels in verse
• Novels in verse
• Novels in verse
• trueOptions alternatives choices
• trueRevenge
• Revenge
• Revenge -- Fiction
• trueTeenage boys
• trueViolence and guns
• Youth, Black
• Youth, Black -- Fiction

Genre

• Novels in verse
• Juvenile works
• Ghost stories
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will

Member of

• NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens, 2018
• Newbery Medal honor book, 2018
• School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
• Coretta Scott King Author honor book, 2018
• Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult, 2018
• Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017
• Junior Library Guild selection, February 2018
• Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature honor book, 2018
• National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature, 2017

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueEmotionally intense
• trueThought-provoking

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Books, 2018.
• Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult, 2018.
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for YA Fiction, 2019.
• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 9-12, 2018.
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2017.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, High School category, 2020.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2017
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 2019.
• Walter Award, Teen, 2018.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2018.

Awards note

• A Junior Library Guild selection, February 2018
• CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist, 2019
• Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2018
• Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult, 2018
• Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017
• Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Nominee, 2020
• Michael L. Printz Honor, 2018
• NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens, 2018
• National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature, 2017
• Newbery Honor Book, 2018
• School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
• Walter Award, Teen Category, 2018
• South Dakota Teen Choice Book Award (High School), 2019-2020

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Young Adult
• 720

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

UG

LC call number

• PZ7.5.R49
• PS3618.E9753

LC item number

• Lon 2017
• L66 2017

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Reading level

• 4.3.
• 4.3

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent