Hogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGNijkamp, Marieke.
Summary: Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On August first, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. This documentary combines archival footage with animated re-enactments of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Cora is grappling with the death of her sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time and stop her brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WARSummary: A realistic drama depicting students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELEEnglehardt, John
Summary: Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, twelve people are dead. In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a disillusioned student, a grieving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGSummary: Student reporters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, recall the attack on their school, describe recovery efforts and their classmates' part in the struggle for gun control, and discuss their roles as journalists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 WESummary: "In the days immediately following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen people, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman began filming with students and families whose lives were forever altered"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFT
Keplinger, Kody
Summary: In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEPMcGraw, Seamus
Summary: "This book is a deep dive into mass shootings--events in which one or more gunmen shoot more than four people--which have become increasingly common, particularly in America, over the last six decades. The book opens on a personal note, describing an event in which the author failed to protect an innocent man from violence, which he likens to our national inability to act and protect each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MCGSummary: Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, the March For Our Lives movement included Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Samantha Fuentes, gun violence survivors, and teenage activists who pulled together the largest youth protest in American history. Their movement went global with rallies on six continents and in over 700 cities in every state across the nation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC USCaletti, Deb
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALNavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NAVReichardt, Marisa
Summary: Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parentsare divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION REIWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "Cora hasn't spoken to her best friend Quinn in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WARBrown, Jennifer
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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Summary: Explores the complexities of gun violence in America by explaining the myths, facts, causes, and obstacles surrounding the issue, and provides resources for students to get involved in gun safety activism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363.33 MCCMustafah, Sahar
Summary: "A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mustafah 2020Neely, Kindra
Summary: "Author Kindra Neely recounts her journey to healing after surviving a mass shooting during her first year of college"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 NEECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 NEESummary: Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in all communities, the student leaders of March for Our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 GLISummary: Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Desperate 2022Bow, Erin
Summary: Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BowDean, Abigail
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEAMcCauley, Kyrie
Summary: "After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021