An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is <i>New York Times </i>bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning 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.<br /><br />A cannon. A strap.<br /> A piece. A biscuit.<br /> A burner. A heater.<br /> A chopper. A gat.<br /> A hammer<br /> A tool<br /> for RULE<br /><br />Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. <i>Revenge</i>. 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. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to che
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