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"May and Otto Barnes have a perfect life: she an engineer, he a freelance artist, new friends in a new town, and a bright, 8 year-old boy. But their world is shattered when their son is wounded in a school shooting and his best friend killed, and, while Liam fights for life, hoaxers begin to harass Otto, trying to force him to admit the shooting never happened. Desperate to stop them, Otto tries to track down the lead hoaxer, a mysterious, hard to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
24) Aftermath
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"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...
25) Day One: a novel
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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...
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"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...
27) Wandering stars
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English
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
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English
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After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn't quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art's neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity fund. Just as mysteriously, no one seems to know where Conner,...
29) After
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
30) Aftershock
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Series
Aftershock volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
31) Silent alarm
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Alys, a Plaineville, Wisconsin, junior who dreams of studying violin at Julliard, must deal with the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting in which her older brother, Luke, was the shooter.
33) Visions: 2.Bang
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"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"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
Seven interwoven narratives spanning three tense hours on a fateful day share the perspectives of a girl with a rare memory condition, a teacher who fears a student may be planning an act of violence, and a girl about to embark on a cross-country plot.
35) Three hours
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In rural Somerset in the midle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather desperate for news. In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save...
36) Lilith: a novel
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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"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...
37) Memoria total
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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He was the only person from his hometown ever to go pro. But his career ended quickly- on his very first play, a violent collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect-he can't forget anything. He returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare-his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered.
38) A good kill
Author
Series
Detective P. T. Marsh novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying mystery featuring a troubled small-town police detective faced with three interwoven crimes that reveal sinister secrets about his community--and the deaths of his family. In the years since the mysterious deaths of his wife and child, P.T. Marsh, a police detective in the small Georgia town of Mason Falls, has faced demons--both professional and personal. But when he is called to the scene of a school shooting, the professional and...
39) Boo
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"One minute, Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple is next to his locker at school reciting the periodic table from heart; the next he finds himself in 'Town,' an afterlife exclusively for thirteen-year-olds. As Boo works to acclimate himself to his new home, another boy from his hometown--Johnny--appears, seemingly a victim of the same school shooter. A social outcast back in America, Boo quickly finds the friendship and joy that he never knew in life, but as he...
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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Caught in a dreamscape, mistaken for a killer ...will Alice find a way home?..Three years ago, Alice's identical twin sister took a gun to school and killed seven innocent kids; now Alice wears the same face as a monster. She's struggling with her identity, and with life in the small Australian town where everyone was touched by the tragedy. Just as Alice thinks things can't get much worse, she encounters her sister on a deserted highway. But all...