TRCA 2019 5 months 10 Books 1 Winner

Don't forget the TRCA continues until the first week of June this year.  The featured book for the week of March 11th is Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.

“Will leaves his apartment with his brother’s gun tucked in his waistband. As he travels down on the elevator, the door opens on certain floors, and Will is confronted with a different figure from his past, each a victim of gun violence.”  Will he choose violence or peace?

This book has received the following accolades:

• A Newbery Honor Book
• A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
• A Printz Honor Book
• A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
• Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
• Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award
• An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
• Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner
• An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017
• A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017
• A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017

Check out this book and the rest of the Top 10 at your CCRCE library today!

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