- Juvenile fiction, School shootings, High schools, Schools
A young adult novel that reads like a journalist's notebook as she struggles to understand what happened at a school dance when two of the students confronted the others with guns and bombs.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and spare.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Todd Strasser
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Ravensburger Buchverlag, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780788793769
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Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Strasser)
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