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Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds (Author)

Booktalk: Will has known about the rules ever since his childhood friend was killed on the playground, and he’s followed the first two: no crying, and no snitching. When his older brother, Shawn, is shot and killed while walking home from the store, Will knows he is expected to follow the final rule and avenge his brother’s death. He knows where Shawn keeps his gun, and he thinks he knows who the shooter is: a member of a rival gang named Riggs. Even if Will has never used a gun–never even held a gun before–rules are rules. But in the elevator on the way down to meet Riggs, Will encounters family and friends who died playing by the rules, and now Will has to decide what he is going to do when the elevator reaches its final stop.

Snippet:
IN CASE YOU AIN’T KNOW

gunshots make everybody
deaf and blind especially
when they make somebody

dead.

Best to become invisible
in times like these.
Everybody knows that.

Even Tony flew away.

A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

BONUS! Download the Reading Group Guide

Doctor Who: 100 Illustrated Adventures
by Various (Authors and Artists) Credits on each page

Booktalk: Profiling 100 of the most beloved episodes since the show first broadcast in 1963, this book is filled with original art from fan artists and professional artists alike, as well as in-depth episode information from the era of the First Doctor to the Twelfth.

NaNoWriMo Notes: One of my writing mantras is that reading the books in the library will help you write your own book. I wanted to share this book as a followup to my NaNoWriMo writing workshops.

How will this book help you write yours? In addition to the amazing art, there is a three to five paragraph summary of all 100 episodes. Plotters can use it as a guide to their writing their book summary and pansters can use it as a guide to write the synopsis for their cover letter . . . when they send out their completed novel in the new year.