School Shootings

School Shootings

Garden, Nancy. Endgame; 2006. (Y-Garden)

Fifteen-year-old Gary Wilton, bullied at school and ridiculed by an unfeeling father for preferring drums to hunting, goes on a shooting rampage at his high school.

Koertge, Ronald. The Brimstone Journals; 2001. (Y-Koertge)

In a series of short, interconnected poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives.

Myers, Walter Dean. Shooter; 2004. (Y-Myers/Y-LPeD-Myers)

Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.

Prose, Francine. After; 2003. (Y-Prose/Y-P-PRO)

In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief counselor takes over a high school and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students. Those who don’t disappear.

Strasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun; 2000. (Y-Strasser/Y-P-STR)

Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.

Tullson, Diane. Lockdown; 2008. (Y-P-TUL Hi/Lo)

When a gunman is seen at the school, two students try and make it out alive.