Children under fire an American crisis
"Based on the acclaimed series--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forward. In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from...
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "I hate guns": Ava, Tyshaun, and the bullets that changed them
- "What happened to Jacob?": twelve seconds on a school playground and the town that would never be the same
- "I can't believe he went through with it": inside the mind of a teenage gunman
- "You have to separate the guns from the kids": children and the firearm safety myth
- "I hope my daddy's okay": how gun violence leads to more trauma and trauma leads to more gun violence
- "It's nothing to get a gun": the plague of illegal firearms
- "Can you stop violence?": the NRA's faltering war on common sense
- "One day has ruined everything she does": the agony of a school shooting survivor
- "Tell me when it's going to be normal": a return to Townville Elementary
- "There's no guarantee I'm going to live": when the help that children need never comes
- "It's more than just protecting children from bullet holes": what campus lockdowns do to kids
- "Are you going to keep kids safe?": how Ava found her voice
- "That's twenty-nine thousand dollars a kid": the business of school security
- "Remember, you can't see Daddy anymore": Father's day and the one who wasn't there
- "I cannot promise you that it will be easy": why some kids make it when others don't
- "Y'all understand each other": Ava, Tyshaun, and the anguish that persists.
