- Fiction, School shootings, Emotional problems, High schools
Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jennifer Brown
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 408
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Hatchette Book Club, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316041447
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Two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award (2005 & 2006), Jennifer's weekly humor column appeared in The Kansas City Star for over four years, until she gave it up to be a full-time young adult novelist. Jennifer writes and lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area, with her husband and three children.
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