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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
312 pages cm
Description
"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face- to- face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter- radicalized...
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.
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.
4) Besieged
Author
Series
Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 3
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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 482 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and malicious misinformation have gained traction in society. One of the nation?s most devastating mass shootings, Sandy Hook was used to create destructive and painful myths. Driven by ideology or profit, or for no sound...
10) 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
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"Young people are suffering the most from the epidemic of gun violence-as early as kindergarten students are crouching behind locked doors during active shooter drills. Teens are galvanizing to speak up and fight for their right to be safe. They don't just want to get involved, they want to change the world. Enough Is Enough is a call to action for teens ready to lend their voices to the gun violence prevention movement. This handbook deftly explains...
12) Aftermath
Author
Description
After her younger brother's death from a heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy moves to a town that was devastated by a school shooting four years earlier, where she must navigate different kinds of grief.
13) 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.
15) Columbine
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
x, 417 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.
16) 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.
17) 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"--
19) 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"--
20) Only child
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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
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