Give a Boy a Gun
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For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a school dance. In the panic of this desperate situation, it soon becomes clear that only one thing matters to Brendan and Gary: revenge.
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I am a middle school Civics and this year I had my students read Give a Boy a Gun and the response from students was GREAT! They loved this book. I have also had high school students read this book as well in a Street Law class I taught and they equally enjoyed this book. I highly recommend this book to all Social Studies teachers.
Here are a couple of the reviews my students gave Give a Boy a Gun.
The book Give a Boy a Gun was just a wonderful book! I enjoyed reading it. Usually, I don't read books but when my teacher gave us that book to read I just fell in love with it! I just had to read more and more and find out what would happen in the end. It was just an amazing book to read. I would love to read more books from that author!
Another Student
The book was really good. It kept you think about what will happen next. I think every kid should read this book because it could happen at any school.
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Give a Boy a Gun
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This book was very extreme, and completely addictive and thought-provoking. From the way it's written from many different people's point of view as flashbacks, and to the footnotes of interesting information on school shootings, this entire book just makes you wonder about how violent our country is becoming. This book is really short, so it's a fast read, but it will probably stick with you for awhile after you read it because of the seriousness of the subject.
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A Close Look at School Violence
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Middletown High School seems a school like any other. There are athletes, especially football players, who feel like they own the place. In some cases they are right; the teachers treat them with a different set of standards and allow them to get away with more than anyone else. There are lots of regular kids and at the other end of the spectrum from the football crowd are the students who are considered freaks. These are the students who are the constant targets of the football players and often of the teachers who recognize the way the system works. It's just like any other high school, and it is dangerous.
Gary and Brendan are two students who are considered freaks. They are constantly bullied by the athletes. They are called names, pushed in the halls, and sometimes they are worried about worse violence. The athletes think they deserve their bad treatment for having no school spirit, for not buying into the glory of athletics. They did it to themselves, some people think. But to Brendan and Gary, it's simply an unfair system that forces them to feel upset and angry every day.
These boys aren't content to just feel angry, though. After years of being pushed around and treated badly, they have finally decided to do something about it, to fight back. They are going to make many of their fellow students and even some of their teachers pay with their lives. They are going to shoot some and bomb others. When the night of the big dance comes, will they be able to pull off this plot? Will someone notice something is terribly wrong and step in?
I liked how the story was told from so many points of view, so you could see how most people didn't think they were doing anything wrong. Even the tormentors couldn't seem to see the results of their actions. I liked the facts about guns at the bottoms of the pages; I was surprised by some of the information.
At the end of the book, many of the characters didn't get it. They still thought the whole tragedy was because Brendan and Gary were crazy, instead of looking at themselves as being partly to blame.
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A great inside on all views of school shootings
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A work of fiction base on facts of numerous school shootings. The book shows diary entries of the two boys who plan and execute the shooting as well as interviews with the survivors and news articles.
The book was very well put together, but the most emotional part was at the end where they show real-life facts about school shooting since the 1970's. The facts and stats will bring tears to your eyes. It also gives you the opinion of the author about what needs to be done and I think we could all learn from his point of views.
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Give a Boy a Gun
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This is the best book that I have read in a long time. I think that many teenagers today can completly relate to what these boys went through in their high school years.
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