About the Book

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.""

Resources

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780060839192
• ISBN 10: 0060839198
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• On Sale: 02/22/2005
• List Price:17.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Violence
• BISAC2 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Epistolary (Letters & Diaries)
• BISAC3 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Suicide

Walter Dean Myers

Biography

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.

Other Works by Walter Dean Myers

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  Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History

  By Walter Dean Myers

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  Juba!

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  Taking Aim

  By Walter Dean Myers