This is a chronological list of school shootings in the united states, including shootings on school buses any shooting that occurred at a k12 public or private school, as well as at colleges and universities are included excluded from this list are the following. Two broad approaches to preventing school shootings by frank newport washington, d. After the parkland shooting, north said more students at her school checked out young adult titles such as give a boy a gun, a 2002 book by. It follows narrator maja norberg as she stands trial for her involvement in a mass shooting at her elite swedish prep school. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult, hate list by jennifer brown, this is where it ends by marieke nijkamp, columbine by d. Fiction about school shootings is, sadly, a expanding genre, and four. Americans continue to be more likely to say that policy makers in washington should focus on making major changes to school security measures and the mental health system than on making major changes to laws on the sale of guns and ammunition.
Books about school shootings what should i read next register for free to build your own book lists. Hate list by jennifer brown, nineteen minutes by jodi picoult, we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver. Parental fear for their childrens safety in school fluctuated over the next two decades but rose in the immediate aftermath of the school shootings at santana high school in santee, california, in 2001 and at an amish schoolhouse in nickel mines, pennsylvania, in 2006. Novel about school shooting tells story from 17 perspectives. Parkland dad writes book with new details about shooter. The novel describes a school shooting, and has been associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. Heres how to prevent the next school shooting, experts. I survived the columbine high school shooting scholastic. Five months ago, valerie leftmans boyfriend, nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria.
School shootings remain extremely rare, representing a tiny fraction of the gun violence epidemic that, on average, leaves a child bleeding or dead every hour in the united states. School shootings find a dark niche in young adult fiction. Browse a list of books tagged school shooting by our club members to find the best school shooting books. School violence is part of the broader social problem of youth violence.
A detective based, school shootings novel johnson, conrad on. Inside the minds of school shooters, as well as several articles available at. It was first published in 1977 and then was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus the bachman books. The phenomenon is most widespread in the united states, which has the highest number of schoolrelated shootings, but school shootings have taken place in. Despite increased attention to school shootings and school safety, rampage attacks continue to devastate communities in the united states and around the world this site is a compendium of documents relating to a wide range of active shooter incidents in educational settings. If the perpetrator was a member of the school staff and the victims primarily his colleagues the case is not included here but added to the list of workplace killings. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. This lesson provides books on a variety of school violence to educate teens and create talking points for class. The themes of the show, based on a book of the same name by malin. Arizona state university english professor james blasingame strongly believes that books are a roadmap to life for young adults that can be used to explore the causes and impact of teen violence and school shootings. Although i have never experienced a school shooting, things the characters. Melissa miller, 15, hid behind a truck while seniors eric harris and dylan klebold sprayed bullets and threw pipe bombs into the parking lot of columbine high school.
School shootings drove stephen king to take rage off. Many school shootings are also categorized as mass shootings due to multiple casualties. School shootings and violence in america by lebrun, marcel and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A sadly growing genre school shooting fiction library journal. This list of school massacres by death toll contains those cases that occurred at kindergartens, schools and universities, as well as their affiliated buildings. School shootings challenge our belief that parents or schools can guarantee total protection and make us keenly aware of our childrens vulnerability to harm or injury. Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions. Database of all types of school shootings over the last 11 years, i have constructed an excel spreadsheet with now over 100 columns that documents nearly 1,800 oncampus shootings or at schoolsponsored events at american schools and colleges including 117 active shooter and mass school shootings when using the definition of two or more injured andor killed with twenty of the shootings.
Since the year after the columbine tragedy, 2000, a total of 1 novels have been published in english about school. Since midaugust, gunfire has erupted more than 20 times at or near school sporting events around the country, more shootings than took place during school hours. Browse this collection of moments when school violence made its way into movies, literature, television, music. Processing school shootings through young adult literature. One thing that i always hated about news articles after school shootings is that they always focused on one aspect music, or video games, or gun control, said floridabased ya author. In response king allowed the novel to fall out of print, and in 20 he published a nonfiction, antifirearms violence essay titled. Gun violence and mental illness, written by a multidisciplinary roster of authors who are leaders in the fields of mental health, public health, and public policy, is a practical guide to the issues surrounding the relation between. The list of school shootings gets longer by the day, and it often seems like no school is safe. Only child by rhiannon navin knopf is a heartbreakingly timely novel about an elementaryschool shooting. After stephen king removed his novel rage from print because it was linked to school shootings, it has become one of the most soughtafter outofprint books. For more information on bullying and school shootings, see my two books, school shooters. As such, mass shootings have become a part of our writing consciousness, too. In many stories, the event of a school going on lockdown is.
Rage is a psychological thriller novel by american writer stephen king, the first he published under the pseudonym richard bachman. School shootings have raised considerable interest among scholars as a global media cultural phenomenon and have increased specifically in the 1990s developing into a seeming cultural epidemic. School violence can take on many different faces, from bullying to school shootings. Examines potential emotional and situational links between the different teens who committed the crimes. She has written books on school violence and led a research team in a twoyear study of rampage school shootings. Here are nine books, both fiction and nonfiction, about the victims and perpetrators of mass shootings in north america. School massacres and mayhem have been a dark thread in popular culture for decades. A group of his colleagues wrote something similar in 2012 after the shootings at sandy hook elementary school, and after a group of school shootings in. Shot trying to stop him, valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. The narrator is a mixed race high school kid who attends a gifted or advanced program, as do his siblings. Mostly in the sphere of mass market fiction, genre fiction, and young adult fiction, mass shootings are frequently occurring in the books we read. List of books and articles about school violence online. The book deals with bullying, drug abuse, selfesteem issues and other teen problems and ends with a columbinestyle school shooting straight out of guy ritchie film. School massacres are counted as incidents involving at least two.
Books about school shootings what should i read next. Over the last decades, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most family friendly american towns and suburbs. Understanding columbine and other school rampage shootings was written by johnathan fast, phd. Two broad approaches to preventing school shootings. The purpose of the site is to help prevent school shootings and to provide insight into the perpetrators of large. On that tragic afternoon last april, eric, 18, and dylan, 17, killed 12 students and a teacher, wounded 23 students, and then killed themselves. In fact, there hasnt been a school shooting in the country since 1961, when one occurred at. Still, mass shootings at schools are a rare phenomenon that cannot be accounted for by simplistic explanations, langman concluded in a journal. This book contributes to the current academic discussion on school shootings by analysing this phenomenon in a broader context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life.
Ya books about school shootings to build empathy and. According to national data, schoolbased firearm incidents in the state, which were well above the national average from 200910, were far below the. Thats why hes devoting time to developing a curriculum for young adult readers so that educators and students can have dialogue on issues such as gun control, bullying. Understanding high school, college, and adult perpetrators, and why kids kill. The loner theory typically involves the shooter having few friends and little to no social skills.
Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. List of school shootings in the united states wikipedia. The social roots of school shootings paperback may 4, 2005 by katherine s. I hope we dont need to see more ya books about school shootings as. Database excel spreadsheet of american school shootings. Books about the columbine high school victims and shooters. They included usa todays data on mass killings defined as four or more people killed using any means, including guns from 2006 to 20, data. Five critical questions students are evacuated by police from marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, fla. A school shooting is an attack at an educational institution, such as a primary school, secondary school, or university, involving the use of firearms. This schoolshooting novel is timely and devastating.
Four books you need to read about school shootings anthony. Parents concern about school safety remains elevated. Based on interviews with community members of the 1997 and 1998 mass school shootings in paducah, kentucky and jonesboro, arkansas, the book suggests that the loner theory is unfounded. Youth violence is defined as the intentional use of physical force or power, which is likely to cause physical or psychological harm, by a person aged between 10 and 24 against another person, group, or community. Four books you need to read about school shootings. Father of slain parkland student writes book with new details about shooters history. Books blackboards and bullets school shootings and. Disturbingly, school shootings often form the mundane backdrop of stories with completely different plots. A study of school shootings from 1979 to 1999, the book focuses primarily on 5 of incidents, including the shootings at columbine high school.
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