Columbine High School Shooting: Student Violence (American Disasters) [Hardcover]

Judy L. Hasday (Author)

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Gr. 5-10. This slim, abundantly illustrated account of the shooting at the Littleton, Colorado, high school is plentiful in facts about perpetrators and victims, circumstances leading up to the massacre, and the rampage itself. The moment-by-moment recounting of the methodical, 46-minute killing spree makes for chilling reading. The often graphic color photographs appearing throughout will undoubtedly attract some browsers, but they offer little to extend the text. Although Hasday fails to look at the incident within the context of school violence as a whole and doesn't effectively relate Columbine to greater societal problems, her presentation of the basic facts of the tragedy is quite thorough. A time line of other school shootings, chapter notes, a glossary, and listings of further readings and Web sites are appended. Ed Sullivan
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Enslow Publishers (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766017826
• ISBN-13: 978-0766017825
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,679,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION, September 7, 2005

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K. TURNER "kimaroo" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Columbine High School Shooting: Student Violence (American Disasters) (Hardcover)

If you want to know more about the Columbine shootings you can find more information on the web instead of in this book. This book is very short and uninformative.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not accurate, October 5, 2004

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This review is from: Columbine High School Shooting: Student Violence (American Disasters) (Hardcover)

Do not buy this book if you want to know anything about Columbine. You would think that someone with a Master's degree would know how to do some kind of research on a topic they are writing a book about. The facts presented in the book are not accurate. I felt my intelligence dropping a few points just reading it. It pains me to think that someone will read this "book" (for lack of a better word) and walk away thinking they know who the killers were or what really went down.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Colum why? High School, October 12, 2003

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C. Burns (Stockton, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Columbine High School Shooting: Student Violence (American Disasters) (Hardcover)

A well researched book into the details and description of this incident which is very interesting. It reads like an incident report however and answers the question who, what, when and where. This author and others along with a host of ohter "experts" do not answer the why this happens question? They do not and can not answer this question even though school shootings were going on a decade previous to this more infamous incident. I do recommend The Last Street Fighter, Run Baby Run and The Cross and the Switch Blade which does answer the "why" question with real incidents that happened long before this one.