![]() ![]() Putting Shawn’s gun in his waistband, Will steps into the elevator, planning to take revenge on the person who murdered his brother. 15-year-old Will is stricken with grief remembering his brother Shawn, who was recently shot and killed. Reynolds did not read a novel from cover to cover until he was 17 years old, and deeply gets the need (for teen boys in particular) for books to be gripping and authentic (Lewis, 2018).Ĭritical Evaluation: Long Way Down is a propulsive novel in verse by YA phenom (and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature) Jason Reynolds. The starting point for Long Way Down came from personal experience - when Reynolds was 19, a friend was murdered and Reynolds considered exacting revenge (Lewis, 2018). Born in Washington, DC, and raised in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds began writing poetry at age nine, and went on to graduate from the University of Maryland with a B.A. Author Background: Jason Reynolds is the author of the Track series for middle grade readers, All American Boys, As Brave as You, Look Both Ways, Long Way Down, For Every One, Stamped, When I Was the Greatest, and The Boy in the Black Suit (Reynolds, n.d.-a). ![]()
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