Story about a school shooting. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story that explores the tragedies of school violence and how the result of bullying can go to the most dramatic extreme.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 14+ years.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Amistad Press .

Walter Dean Myers is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry for young people. His many titles include the Newbery Honor Books Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness, and the Caldecott Honor Book Harlem in collaboration with his son Christopher, who also worked with him on Monster. Walter Dean Myers grew up in Harlem and now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family.