Give a Boy a Gun, Todd Strasser
Give a Boy a Gun, Todd Strasser
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Give a Boy a Gun

Author: Todd Strasser

Narrator: Stina Nielsen, Jack Garrett, Carine Montbertrand, Robert Ramirez, Suzanne Toren, Scott Shina, Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/22/2009

Synopsis

A heartbreaking novel that offers no easy answers, Give a Boy a Gun addresses the growing problem of school violence. Although it is a work of fiction, it could tragically be the leading nightly news story in any community. After a high school shooting at her alma mater, a college journalism student returns home to interview students, teachers, parents, and friends of the suspects. Intermingled with her interviews are journal entries written by the two troubled boys responsible for the shooting. Their journals chronicle years of systematic abuse at the hands of their classmates and follow the boys' frustration and pain as they turn to rage. Give a Boy a Gun explores every angle and raises tough questions about peer bullying, gun control and accountability. A full cast of narrators' voices add a dramatic reality to this provocative work.

About Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser is the internationally bestselling author of numerous books for children and teens, most notably the classics The Wave and Give a Boy a Gun, which are taught in classrooms around the world. While many of his novels are based on or inspired by events in his own life, Fallout — his 100th original novel — is an especially personal story. “We were indeed the only ones in the neighborhood with a bomb shelter,” he says. “This novel can be read as a memoir, both of what happened during that time and of what I feared would happen.” Todd Strasser lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com Every person in the world should read this book. That being said, I'll admit right off that I hate guns. Absolutely abhor them. I'm the mother who refuses to let her children play with toy guns, even water pistols. Why? Why, indeed. Why let your children shoot thin......more

Goodreads review by Payam

از همون صفحه‌ی اولِ داستان می‌دونیم که با چه اتفاقی سر و کار داریم. دانش‌آموزهای خشمگینی که قراره دخل همکلاسی‌هاشون رو بیارن. این رو حتی از روی اسمِ نه چندان جذاب و جلد کتاب هم میشه فهمید. پس حالا مهارت نویسنده در قصه‌گویی اهمیت دو چندانی پیدا می‌کنه. چون حداقل عنصر غافل‌گیری و کشش داستانی برای فهمی......more

Goodreads review by Bethany

I wanted to give this book less than 3 stars. For me, 3 is kind of the cut-off between pretty good and not great. In the end, I felt the content was important enough to warrant three stars. This book addresses school violence, particularly involving guns. The book is published in 2000 and was perhaps......more

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