A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette.
Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Or does he?Īs the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered.
That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s LiteratureĪn Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult FictionĪn Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017Īn ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. “A tour de force.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)Ī Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature “Astonishing.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” - Booklist (starred review)
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