Long way down

Julia Walton on a new novel in verse about trauma and family tragedy.

10 ways to teach Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds in your high school secondary English language arts classroom.

Check out the graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' award-winning YA novel, LONG WAY DOWN.

This tense and tautly-written novel-in-verse takes place in the short span of sixty seconds. Fifteen-year-old Will gets on the elevator with his brother's gun tucked into his waistband. His brother Shawn is dead, and he wants revenge. The elevator stops on the sixth floor, and Buck enters. He tells Will to check the gun; one bullet is missing. Did Shawn ever use his gun? And then Will remembers: Buck is dead. Another figure from Will's past enters a few floors later, and then another, all…

The latest novel from best-selling English author Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down, focuses on a group of suicidal people who accidentally meet atop a tall building — and how that meeting changes their fates. He also writes "Stuff I've Been Reading," a column for The Believer magazine. Many of Hornby's novels have been made into films, including About a Boy, High Fidelity and Fever Pitch.

This Long Way Down review explains how powerful this Jason Reynolds novel can be in your classroom, as an independent reading choice or a whole class novel.

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