Give a Boy a Gun

As we all know, school shootings are becoming a much to real thing in our country and around the world. Guns are becoming easier to obtain and even more deadly as technology advances. The whole topic of weapons at school is seen in news and happens way too often for even a sense of safety anywhere in the world.

In this book, Give a Boy a Gun, Todd Strasser paints the frightening image all to well. Using interviews and quotes from victims and offenders, he pieces together an amazing story of a school shooting at Middletown High.

Over the duration of their whole time at school Gary Searle and Brendan Lawlor have been bullied and teased by their classmates for not fitting in. Finally in their 10th grade year they decide to revolt. They steal guns from a neighbor and take the student body along with some faculty members hostage during a school dance. One eventually commits suicide and the other is beaten to death before anyone has a say in it.

This is a fantastic book, Strasser really put his best work into this book, I absolutely loved every word. I couldn't set the book down and it was definitely one of the best books I've ever read. I wouldn't think twice about recommending this book to anyone. A-