"Exceptional graphic novel adaptation of a ground-breaking novel-in-verse about gun violence, grief and breaking free"
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019, Jason Reynolds’s original Long Way Down novel-in-verse (stunningly illustrated by Chris Priestley) has here been adapted into a glorious graphic novel. The story is as gripping and moving as ever, its atmosphere perhaps even more poignant courtesy of Danica Novgorodoff’s impactful watercolour illustrations. It’s an incredibly poignant story about breaking the cycles of brutal gang culture that will surely now find an even bigger audience.
| Primary Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
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The award-winning, bestselling verse novel is now a stunning graphic novel with illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff.
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS.
Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he's doing.
This haunting, lyrical, powerful verse novel will blow you away.
Long Way Down The Graphic Novel features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: genres, Graphic novels, Comic books, Cartoons, Manga, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Long Way Down The Graphic Novel is available in Paperback
Long Way Down The Graphic Novel was written by Jason Reynolds and published by Faber & Faber
Long Way Down The Graphic Novel has 208 pages
£8.99
