Pub Date: September 1, 2015
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2015010653
Lexile Code: 0740
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 14 to 17
Physical Info: 1.40" H x 8.30" L x 5.70" W ( 0.90 lbs) 352 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Violence | Bullying | Emotions and Feelings
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.
Brief description: Tom Leveen is the author of Random, Sick, manicpixiedreamgirl, Party, Zero (a YALSA Best Book of 2013), Shackled, and Hellworld. A frequent speaker at schools and conferences, Tom was previously the artistic director and cofounder of an all-ages, nonprofit visual and performing venue in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is an Arizona native, where he lives with his wife and young son.
Review Quotes: "The storytelling is wonderfully intense and distinctive... Readers will be captivated." -VOYA, starred review
"Engaging and heart-wrenching." -Kirkus Reviews "A fresh and thought-provoking take on a disturbingbut relevant topic." -School Library Journal "These stories humanize a troubled teenager, as well as the people who hurt him along the way, but the authors don't let anyone off the hook, Kirby least of all." -Publishers Weekly