Long Way Down // The Graphic Novel

ATimeBest YA Book of All Time (2021)

Jason Reynoldss Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honorwinning, #1New York Timesbestselling novelLong Way Downis now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff.

Wills older brother, Shawn, has been shot.
Dead.
Will feels a sadness so great, he cant explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE RULES:

No. 1: Crying.
Dont.
No matter what.

No. 2: Snitching
Dont.
No matter what.

No. 3: Revenge
Do.
No matter what.

But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And theres always someone else who knows to follow the rules

Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, graphic designer, and horse wrangler who lives in Kentucky. Her books includeA Late Freeze;Slow Storm;Refresh, Refresh(included inTheBest American Comics 2011); andThe Undertaking of Lily Chen.Her art and writing have been published inArtforum,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.

• Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books; Illustrated edition (October 13, 2020)
• Language: English
• Hardcover: 208 pages
• ISBN-10: 1534444955
• ISBN-13: 9781534444959
• Reading age: 14 years and up
• Lexile measure: HL630L
• Grade level: 9 and up
• Item Weight: 1.45 pounds
• Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9 inches