Long Way Down

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Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. I wanted to focus on supporting as many new-to-me black authors as possible in February, and Jason Reynolds was at the very top of my list.

From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. This was such a powerful read, I hope readers everywhere and of all ages (teen and up) read it and are affected by it in a positive way.

After earning a BA in English from The University of Maryland, College Park, Jason Reynolds moved to Brooklyn, New York, where you can often find him walking the four blocks from the train to his apartment talking to himself. It gave readers plenty of room to think and reflect on the novel as a whole, while still managing to remain a satisfying conclusion. Then, Will's father, Mikey, enters and holds a gun to Will's head to show him what it feels like to be a victim. This hard-hitting tale, based on an award-winning novel in verse by Jason Reynolds, is very much enhanced and accessible in graphic novel format. Our main character believes that he must uphold justice for his brothers death, by killing his killer.

Grief, Fear, and Violence (cycle) - "The Rules" play a huge part in establishing the setting, context, and pattern of violence.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

This is perfection, everything is extremely well done from the narrative to the page design, after reading this you will definitely see some changes in your point of view when it comes to the discussions brought up by the author.Jason's skill at putting words together that grab your heart and head, bringing you into the lives of his characters, kids just trying their best to do what's right and live the way they've been taught, astounds me. To my mess of a brain, if poetry doesn't rhyme or have a prominent rhythm or pattern, it just seems that the enter key was pressed in random places.