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Give a Boy a Gun
"BANG!"
Gunshots echo through the gym. Two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan, hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance. Their targets: the football players and teachers who have tormented them. Their weapons: semiautomatic rifles stolen from a neighbor. Their motive: revenge.
In "Give a Boy a Gun," the interweaving voices of students, teachers, friends, and the gunmen themselves re-create the harrowing crisis at Middletown High and the reasons behind Gary and Brendan's rampage. Mirroring the voices on each page are facts about guns and school violence that offer a blistering counterpoint to a tragedy that rings dreadfully true to life.
A stunning work of fiction taken straight from today's headlines, "Give a Boy a Gun" is a stirring wake-up call to stop the violence and explore the role of guns in the lives of teenagers.
Juvenile FictionAnimalsHorsesSocial ThemesAdolescence & Coming of Age
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
LENGTH146
LANGUAGEEN
Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Strasser)
4.0
Give a Boy a Gun
"BANG!"
Gunshots echo through the gym. Two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan, hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance. Their targets: the football players and teachers who have tormented them. Their weapons: semiautomatic rifles stolen from a neighbor. Their motive: revenge.
In "Give a Boy a Gun," the interweaving voices of students, teachers, friends, and the gunmen themselves re-create the harrowing crisis at Middletown High and the reasons behind Gary and Brendan's rampage. Mirroring the voices on each page are facts about guns and school violence that offer a blistering counterpoint to a tragedy that rings dreadfully true to life.
A stunning work of fiction taken straight from today's headlines, "Give a Boy a Gun" is a stirring wake-up call to stop the violence and explore the role of guns in the lives of teenagers.
Juvenile FictionAnimalsHorsesSocial ThemesAdolescence & Coming of Age
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
LENGTH146
LANGUAGEEN
Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Strasser)
