"Shootings have been in the news a lot in recent years. For many, a shooting at school is the worst kind of nightmare. School is meant to be a place where kids can be safe. A person with a gun on school grounds is never meant to happen. But what if it does? Learn how adults are working to keep guns out of schools and planning to keep kids safe if a gun does make it onto campus. Find out what you can do to prevent gun violence at school--and how you...

Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.

After Columbine, the shooter's mother attempts to reconcile how the son she thought she knew, the son she loved, could willingly be a school shooter.

Four high school yearbook-committee members struggle to understand and appropriately document a horrific school shooting in a suburban St. Louis town that is also being terrorized by mysterious house fires at the homes of the victims. Following a shocking school shooting, the members of the yearbook committee-- Nick, Zola, Matt, and Christina-- are faced with documenting thie horrific tragedy. The four vow to honor the memories of those lost, as...

22 minutes separate Julia Vann's before and after. Before: Julia had a twin brother, a boyfriend, and a best friend. After: She has a new identity, a new hometown, and memories of those twenty-two minutes that refuse to come into focus. At least, that's what she tells the police. Now that she's Lucy Black, she's able to begin again. She's even getting used to the empty bedroom where her brother should be. And her fresh start has attracted the attention...

"A teacher who saved the lives of fifteen elementary school students during the Sandy Hook shooting shares her experience with others in the hopes that they too can overcome their own personal tragedies, regardless of their magnitude,"--Novelist. Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six- and-seven-year-olds from the tragic events that took place on December 14, 2012, by piling...

Discusses the Columbine High School Massacre in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999, focusing on the crime itself as well as the tools and techniques used to process the scene. Also features crime stats, facts versus fiction sections, full-color photos and more.