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1) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 17
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.
3) Aftershock
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the shining star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly, friend to the local teenage girls, asks her husband Dell to uncover the true motive behind the inexplicable crime.
4) Mockingbird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
p. cm.
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.
5) Only child
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 25 cm
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
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
8) The Healer
Author
Series
O'Malley volume 5
Language
English
Description
When a school shooting rips through her community, Rachel O'Malley must find the child who saw the shooting and locate the missing gun.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.
Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did.
On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After high school graduation, best friends Matt and Cole strive to put behind them the school shooting they survived in first grade and really begin to live, in a text told in two voices.
12) Bang
Author
Series
Visions volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting.
13) The lucky ones
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 19 cm.
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.
15) Aftermath
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But there's no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn't a victim; he was a shooter. Jesse Mandal knows all too well that the scars of the past don't heal easily. The shooting cost Jesse his brother and his best friend--Skye. Ripped apart by tragedy, Jesse and Skye can't resist reopening the mysteries of their past. But old wounds hide darker...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
17) Lilith: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her son Lydan suffers traumatic injuries in a school shooting, single mom Elisabeth Ross grows enraged at men in power. If they won't do anything to help end this epidemic of violence, she will. Believing it's her destiny, she sets out to awaken the world to the cowards these men are and commits her own shocking act of violence. Going by the name Lilith--the first wife of Adam who fled Eden rather than serve a man--she posts a video of her...
19) One breath away
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
20) Day One: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can't seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by tragedy, they find their futures may be defined by more than just their good intentions. Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb, defined by poignant traditions passed from generation to generation. Marty is a golden girl here, albeit one who quietly chafes against the legacy of her father's accomplishments and the care of her saintly mother - an outsider...