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Cameron, Carla, and Len were fascinated (for different reasons) with guns and target shooting at the Patriots' club range until the day Len brought his Kalashnikov rifle, his AR-18, and his Ruger pistol to school, and shot and killed football jock Brad Williams, and then himself. Here is yet another school shooting story that begins with bullying and ends with disaster--a type that is becoming almost a sub-genre of YA fiction. Yet Walter Dean Myers, winner of many awards for his young adult novels, brings freshness and new anguish to this familiar tale (and growing social problem) of unstable victim tormented by bullies to homicidal rage. Following the example of his own masterwork Monster, Myers uses different perspectives in the aftermath of the "incident" to reveal the characters and to tell the story: interviews with Cameron and Carla by The Harrison County School Safety Committee, newspaper reports, a police report, Len's handwritten "die-ary" of his deranged thoughts, and finally, a grim medical examiner's report. The contrasts and contradictions in these various perspectives challenge readers to produce their own versions of why Cameron and Carla became Len's followers and what could have prevented this tragedy and others like it in real life. (ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell
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Grade 9 Up–Walter Dean Myers brings a compelling twist and serious engagement of previously lightly trod themes in his version of outsider-shoots-to-kill-school-bully (HarperCollins, 2004). Through a variety of official documents filed months after the event, as authorities seek to assess whether the violence had been an occasion their intervention could have prevented, the narrative places the deceased perpetrator's best friend, Cameron, an upper middle class African-American teen, at the center of the investigation. Listeners come to understand the very real issues the school could have addressed assertively and effectively—ranging from "typical" bullying to parental psychological abuse to wasting the intelligence of some students because they lacked the social skills to take part of their own accord in the standard menu of institutional reputation-building activities. Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, and Michelle Santapietro read the various parts of investigators, Cameron and, through his diary, the clearly psychotic shooter. Each reader brings his or her various characters fully to life, pacing their performances to match the type of document—investigative report, field notes, personal writings—performed. Like the author's novel Monster, this excellent text is further enhanced and made more broadly accessible by its availability in audio format.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
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Cameron, Carla, and Len were fascinated (for different reasons) with guns and target shooting at the Patriots' club range until the day Len brought his Kalashnikov rifle, his AR-18, and his Ruger pistol to school, and shot and killed football jock Brad Williams, and then himself. Here is yet another school shooting story that begins with bullying and ends with disaster--a type that is becoming almost a sub-genre of YA fiction. Yet Walter Dean Myers, winner of many awards for his young adult novels, brings freshness and new anguish to this familiar tale (and growing social problem) of unstable victim tormented by bullies to homicidal rage. Following the example of his own masterwork Monster, Myers uses different perspectives in the aftermath of the "incident" to reveal the characters and to tell the story: interviews with Cameron and Carla by The Harrison County School Safety Committee, newspaper reports, a police report, Len's handwritten "die-ary" of his deranged thoughts, and finally, a grim medical examiner's report. The contrasts and contradictions in these various perspectives challenge readers to produce their own versions of why Cameron and Carla became Len's followers and what could have prevented this tragedy and others like it in real life. (ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell
From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up–Walter Dean Myers brings a compelling twist and serious engagement of previously lightly trod themes in his version of outsider-shoots-to-kill-school-bully (HarperCollins, 2004). Through a variety of official documents filed months after the event, as authorities seek to assess whether the violence had been an occasion their intervention could have prevented, the narrative places the deceased perpetrator's best friend, Cameron, an upper middle class African-American teen, at the center of the investigation. Listeners come to understand the very real issues the school could have addressed assertively and effectively—ranging from "typical" bullying to parental psychological abuse to wasting the intelligence of some students because they lacked the social skills to take part of their own accord in the standard menu of institutional reputation-building activities. Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, and Michelle Santapietro read the various parts of investigators, Cameron and, through his diary, the clearly psychotic shooter. Each reader brings his or her various characters fully to life, pacing their performances to match the type of document—investigative report, field notes, personal writings—performed. Like the author's novel Monster, this excellent text is further enhanced and made more broadly accessible by its availability in audio format.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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