description: BANG!  Gunshots echo through the gym. Two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan, hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance. Their targets: the football players and teachers who have tormented them. Their weapons: semiautomatic rifles stolen from a neighbor. Their motive: revenge.  In Give a Boy a Gun, the interweaving voices of students, teachers, friends, and the gunmen themselves re-create the harrowing crisis at Middletown High and the reasons behind Gary and Brendan's rampage. Mirroring the voices on each page are facts about guns and school violence that offer a blistering counterpoint to a tragedy that rings dreadfully true to life.  A stunning work of fiction taken straight from today's headlines, Give a Boy a Gun is a stirring wake-up call to stop the violence and explore the role of guns in the lives of teenagers.
title: Give a Boy a Gun
titlecomplete: Give a Boy a Gun
genres: Crime, Young Adult, School, Banned Books, Childrens, Teen, High School, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 7818
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Charlotte Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award
publisher: RECORDED BOOKS, LLC