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Violent ends a novel in seventeen points of view

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...

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Other Authors: Hutchinson, Shaun David.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon Pulse, 2015.
Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Young adult fiction.
School shootings > Young adult fiction.
High schools > Young adult fiction.
Schools > Young adult fiction.
Perspective (Philosophy) > Young adult fiction.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 338 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781481437455 (hardback)
1481437453 (hardback)
9781481437462 (paperback)
1481437461 (paperback)
Author Notes: Neal Shusterman was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 12, 1962. He received degrees in psychology and drama from the University of California, Irvine. Within a year of graduating, he had his first book deal and a screenwriting job. He has written numerous books including The Dark Side of Nowhere, Red Rider's Hood, The Shadow Club, The Shadow Club Rising, The Eyes of Kid Midas, Shattered Sky, Unwind, and Antsy Does Time. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2015 for Challenger Deep. He also writes several series including the Skinjacker Trilogy, the Star Shards Chronicles, and the Unwind Dystology. As a screen and television writer, he has written for the Goosebumps and Animorphs television series, and wrote the Disney Channel Original Movie Pixel Perfect.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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