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Gr 8-Up Six months after a deadly shooting at a suburban high school, educators and psychological and criminal experts compile their interviews and analyses to assess any ongoing threat in the school environment. Through these documents, Myers skillfully tells the story of the shooting, its precipitating causes, and the aftermath for the shooter's closest friends. As in Robert Cormier's The Rag and Bone Shop (Delacorte, 2001), readers are made aware of the realistic and insidious biases different interrogators bring to their investigations. Seventeen-year...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Myers's new novel takes the form of a "Threat Analysis Report" following a high school shooting. Though the incident is not specified until midway through the novel, readers will instantly recognize the Columbine-like circumstances. The school board's report consists of newspaper articles, police and medical examiner's reports, the journal of shooter Leonard Gray, and, most prominently, a series of interviews with the shooter's friends and alleged co-conspirators, Cameron Porter and Carla Evans. Myers's use of multiple documents invites comparison to his prize-winning novel Monster (rev. 5/99). ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More