Shooter

Name: Shooter
Rating: 4.3913044929504395 (23 reviews)

Walter Dean Myers

Oct 2009 · Harper Collins

4.4

23 reviews

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256

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The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story.

"Questions of guilt and innocence drive the plot and stay with the reader," said Hazel Rochman in a starred Booklist review. "Highly readable."

"A haunting story that uncovers the pain of several high school students," according to Teenreads.com. "It explores the tragedies of school violence and how the result of bullying can go to the most dramatic extreme. Myers has a gift for expressing the voices of his characters. Shooter is not a light read, but it will leave you reeling."

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4.4

23 reviews

Clark Holmes

February 23, 2017

This was a well written and well thought out book by Walter Dean Myers. The book is very descriptive and included a large amount of vivid details that made me feel as if I were right there during the incident. A full 5 stars, this book was very enjoyable with a wonderful deeper meaning of what bullying can evolve in to. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good book. Other Walter Dean Myers books have also never let me down, and I would highly recommend him. I plan to read many more of Mr.Myers novels now, thanks to this one!

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A Google user

November 23, 2009

I thought this book was pretty good, but not the best I have read. I did like the set up about how it was wrote with the interviews. It related to kids which I thought was cool. Overall I thought this was a pretty good book.

A Google user

July 23, 2012

This book is really good full of shocking things though can get you down a little

About the author

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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