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Jamie's Got a Gun: A Graphic Novel


School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 280

Published: 2014

Great for age 7-17 years

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Jamie Kidding finds a semi-automatic handgun in an inner-city dumpster. An aspiring artist, Jamie initially resorts to his notebook to record the reality of his complicated life with his mother, his deadbeat stepfather and the bullies he faces daily at his high school. Gradually, the weapon takes over Jamie's life and his imagination, tantalizing him with deadly solutions to his personal troubles. Seduced by a sense of power, one fateful day he takes the gun to school. Jamie's Got a Gun is a hypbrid of novel, film noir, and comic/graphic novel.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 280 pages in this book. This book was published in 2014 by Great Plains Publications Ltd .

 

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Moonbeam Children's Book Award - Fiction - YA
This book was recognised in the Fiction - YA category by the Moonbeam Children's Book Award.