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1) Only child
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...
5) Snapped
Author
Series
Tracers volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After surviving a sniper attack on the local college campus, crime lab technician Sophie Barrett comes to believe that it was not a random, senseless act and works to make homicide detective Jonah Macon believe her.
6) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
7) Hate list
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in their alternating voices, twelve-year-old neighbors and former best friends Cora Hamed and Quinn McCauley begin working together to open a wormhole so they can travel through time to prevent the school shooting that resulted in the deaths of Cora's sister and Quinn's brother.
11) Give a boy a gun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through interviews and letters, tells the fictional story of two boys who hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance, and offers facts about guns and school violence throughout the story.
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue
14) Besieged
Author
Series
Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While checking on a colleague's daughter, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is on site when a school is attacked and an autistic girl is kidnapped, sending him on a rescue mission that uncovers a plan for a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S.
15) Underwater
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Agoraphobic since the shooting at her high school, Morgan suffers panic attacks at the thought of going outside, but when Evan moves in next door, she finds herself attracted to him and begins to long for the life she's been missing.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enduring the harrowing minutes of a shooting attack on her school by a radicalized assailant, a school principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants experiences flashbacks about the bigotry she faced as a child and the disappearance of an older sister.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Offers an account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of Parkland who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders, inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.
19) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Drawing on hours of interviews and exclusive sources and access, a New York Times journalist documents Sandy Hook and its aftermath, where conspiracy theorists have forced the victims to defend themselves, and the truth of their children's fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers.
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