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4) Finding Jake
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and Defending Jacob"--
Author
Formats
Description
In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don't add up and the real killers may still be out there.
8) Mockingbird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
235 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
9) Katzenjammer
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In chapters that alternate between the past and the present, Cat slowly recalls her life before she and her classmates were trapped inside School, where half of them are mutating, everyone is fearful, and self-destruction seems to be the only means of escape.
10) Bang
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting"--
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where,with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
12) A thousand cuts
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May begins to piece together the testimonies of the various witnesses, an uglier and more complex...
Author
Formats
Description
Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
15) Besieged
Author
Series
Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 3
Formats
Description
It starts with the unthinkable. A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom. A nightmare scenario that has become all too common in today's United States. But this time, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is there when it happens. Checking in on the schoolteacher daughter of a colleague, Mahegan finds himself face to face with a merciless gunman rigged as a suicide bomber. Without warning, the school is attacked from the outside as well--and all...
16) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
Formats
Description
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.
18) Only child
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy
Author
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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