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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.
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
3) Hate list
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Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
4) Mockingbird
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English
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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.
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English
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"In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
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Rachel Knight novels volume 4
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English
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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) The healer
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 5
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Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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When a school shooting rips through her community, Rachel O'Malley must find the child who saw the shooting ... and locate the missing gun. Summary For years Rachel OUMalley has touched grief as she helps others through it, but now grief is something very personal: she is losing her own sister to cancer. Helping the other OUMalleys through the crisis is taking everything Rachel has to give. When a school shooting rips through her community, she must...
9) Twenty
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
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English
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Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties—Florida’s fifth mass shooting in as many years—in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize–winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious issues roiling America today.
It is the message every parent of a school-age child fears: “Active Shooter on Campus.”
Jack Swyteck is at his office...
10) After
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2004, c2003
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English
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In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
11) Big Claus
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High Plains Fiction
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The shootings of Dave Chandler, former teenage drug dealer turned teacher, and local rancher Brad Stondt raise a lot of questions. Such as, where has Chandler been for the past twenty-four years? And who is trying to kill Santa Claus?
12) Only Child
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2018.
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English
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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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Lake Union Publishing
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[2021]
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English
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"Simone is trying her best not to think of what she's lost. Diagnosed with MS, she awaits the results of another anxiety-inducing MRI. She's just walked away from Connor, 'a fixer' but possibly the love of her life. And nearing the holidays, the sights and sounds of winter in South Dakota only prick memories of better years gone by. Then, on a December morning at the university where she works, jarring gunshots pierce the halls. In a temporary safe...
14) Give a boy a gun
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English
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Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.
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Scholastic Press
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English
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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.
18) The lucky ones
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Delacorte Press
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[2020]
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English
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"In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all"--
May survived the school shooting, but her twin brother died that day, and May was the only one to walk out of the band room. Even after a year she feels angry, lost, and alone. Zach lost his old life-- and most of his friends-- when his mother decided to defend...
19) Silent alarm
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G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Alys, a Plaineville, Wisconsin, junior who dreams of studying violin at Julliard, must deal with the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting in which her older brother, Luke, was the shooter.
20) Bang
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Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"--Publisher's description.
