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- A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Jason Reynolds's Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff.
- 208 Pages
- Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes
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About the Book
"Adapted from Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, published by Atheneum in 2017'--Title page verso.Book Synopsis
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Jason Reynolds's Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff. Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot.Dead.
Will feels a sadness so great, he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying.
Don't.
No matter what. No. 2: Snitching
Don't.
No matter what. No. 3: Revenge
Do.
No matter what. But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules...
Review Quotes
"Danica Novgorodoff has done a superb job of graphically capturing the gritty emotions of the original story--the anguish, the cyclical bloodshed, and the terror of the present situation." Highly Recommended --School Library Connection "November-December 2020"
"In his YA novel Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds uses the painful past to reveal the difficulty between doing what you are taught is right and doing what is moral. Danica Novgorodoff's ink-and-watercolor illustrations are a beautiful addition to Reynolds's lyrical text. A gorgeously illustrated reinterpretation of the novel."--Shelf Awareness for Readers "November 17, 2020"
"Reynolds has skillfully edited and rearranged his original verse novel to create room for Novgorodoff's impressionistic ink and watercolor illustrations to flourish, resulting in an adaptation that feels authentic to its new comics format."--Horn Book Magazine *STARRED* "January/February 2021"
*"Far more than just an illustration of the events of the novel, Novgorodoff's iteration powerfully cultivates the tone and mood of its source material, demonstrating just how effective and artful comics can be."--Booklist, starred review
*"Novgorodoff's watercolors, which bleed at the edges like pavement stains, match the text in mood and fluency, and by putting faces to characters, they tacitly untangle the web of revenge killings and mistaken identities foundational to the plot."--BCCB, starred review
*"Reynolds's words paint pictures of their own in this tragic yet poignant illustrated tale that offers no answers to the seemingly impossible choices some communities face."--School Library Journal, starred review
*"A moving rendition that stands on its own."--Kirkus, starred review
About the Author
Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, graphic designer, and horse wrangler who lives in Kentucky. Her books include A Late Freeze; Slow Storm; Refresh, Refresh (included in The Best American Comics 2011); and The Undertaking of Lily Chen. Her art and writing have been published in Artforum, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Literary Magazine, and many others. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in literature and was named Sarabande Books' 2016 writer-in-residence. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Visit her online at DanicaNovgorodoff.com.Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.9 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 13-17 Years
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Sub-Genre: Social Themes
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jason Reynolds
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2020
TCIN: 79852078
UPC: 9781534444959
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-4376
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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