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Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000, ©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The mother of Cassie Bernall, one of the high school students murdered in the Columbine shooting incident in Littleton, Colorado, reveals the dramatic journey of a daughter who was, at one point, traveling down a troubled path similar to that of her killers. She tells a story of growing up in the 90's, of peer pressure, adolescent turmoil, and the tough choices parents must make.
15) Elephant
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance. The experiences of each student range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.
Author
Publisher
Safe Havens International Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This book provides an informed and rational examination of this difficult subject starting with the 1970 murder of nine Israeli school children and three adults in a brutal terrorist attack that left nineteen others crippled for life. Tracing the history of school related terrorist attacks in ten countries all the way through the atrocities committed at Beslan, the authors invoke the counsel of other top experts in evaluating this timely, emotional...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined."--Imdb
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, the budding romance between tenth-graders Uly Gates and Sallie Walls is tested when their sisters run against each other in a racially-charged campaign for student-body president.
Uly would rather watch old Westerns with his new girlfriend, Sallie, than get involved in his school's messy politics. His older sister Regina is fed up with the way white school-body presidential candidate Leona Walls talks about black students. Regina...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La ciudad y los perros, traducida a más de treinta lenguas, está ambientada en el Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado. Los protagonistas de la novela, un grupo de jóvenes que se "educan" en una disciplina militar implacable y violenta, aprenden a sobrevivir en un ambiente en el que están muy arraigados los prejuicios raciales y las diferencias entre clases sociales y económicas; donde todos se muestran como no son en realidad y la transgresión de...
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