Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULEOr, 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. Revenge. 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 check that the gun is even loaded. And that?s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn?s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn?t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck?s in the elevator? Just as Will?s trying to think this through, the door to