elizabethseebee 's review for:

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

4.0

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This book was all too real... The story is about two boys who plan a school shooting... It is told through snippets of interviews by friends, neighbors, family, teachers, and the bullies... There were also statistics at the bottom and a timeline in the back of shootings. That occured up until the publication of this book... I know Columbine was the shooting that everyone knew, but as a kid I remember the Westside Middle School shooting more... I remember being in third grade and telling my teacher about being afraid of fire drillls after reading that article in the paper... I don't remember Columbine as much even though I was a year older, I think my parents made a point to shelter me from hearing about it when it was happening... I also didn't know there was a shooting in Brentwood HS back in 93...