Long Way Down

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Will has grown up in a community where murder is a regular occurrence and everyone follows three rules: don’t cry, don’t snitch, and get revenge. When Will’s older brother is shot and killed, he decides that he needs to follow rule number 3, but, as he goes down the elevator to find the boy he believes to have killed his brother, something strange starts to happen that makes him think a little harder about what he’s about to do.

The book is several hundred pages, but it’s written in verse and is a really quick read.