School Shootings in Tween and Teen FictionLike this list

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• Please Pay Attention

  Sumner, Jamie,

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  After surviving a school shooting that left her feeling helpless in her wheelchair, Bea finds healing and empowerment through horseback riding therapy and begins to advocate for change.

• Simon Sort of Says

  Bow, Erin,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Making of Yolanda La Bruja

  Avila, Lorraine,

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  Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. But then a white boy, the son…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thoughts & Prayers

  a Novel in Three Parts

  Bliss, Bryan,

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  Three high school students attempt to repair their lives after a school shooting.

• The Shape of Thunder

  Warga, Jasmine,

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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.

• This Is Not a Drill

  Holt, K. A.,

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  Told in text messages, middle-schooler Ava is having a really bad day: her parents are getting divorced, she has had a big argument with her best friends, and the charge on her cellphone is getting low; but things are about to get a lot worse…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Numb to This

  Memoir of a Mass Shooting

  Neely, Kindra,

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  Author Kindra Neely recounts her journey to healing after surviving a mass shooting during her first year of college.

• The Golden Hour

  Smith, Niki,

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  After witnessing a violent attack at school, Manuel struggles with anxiety but his cell phone camera helps him find anchors when he dissociates, and an unexpected friendship opens up new possibilities.

• Activist

  a Story of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting

  Hogg, Lauren, 2003-

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  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. She lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she, along with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lucky Ones

  Lawson, Liz, 1980-

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  In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all.

• Every Moment After

  Moldover, Joseph,

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  After high school graduation, best friends Matt and Cole strive to put behind them the school shooting they survived in first grade and really begin to live. Told in two voices.

• We Can Be Heroes

  McCauley, Kyrie,

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  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.

• This Is Where It Ends

  Nijkamp, Marieke

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation