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Narrated by Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, Michelle Santopietro
Walter Dean MyersUnabridged — 3 hours, 36 minutes
Narrated by Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, Michelle Santopietro
Walter Dean MyersUnabridged — 3 hours, 36 minutes
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The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story.
""Questions of guilt and innocence drive the plot and stay with the reader,"" said Hazel Rochman in a starred Booklist review. ""Highly readable.""
""A haunting story that uncovers the pain of several high school students,"" according to Teenreads.com. ""It explores the tragedies of school violence and how the result of bullying can go to the most dramatic extreme. Myers has a gift for expressing the voices of his characters. Shooter is not a light read, but it will leave you reeling.""
This young adult fiction book tackles the difficult and timely topic of school violence, making it a great read for teenagers who are interested in exploring the theme of violence in a realistic way.
With multiple narratives, personal journal entries, and newspaper and police reports, Shooter offers a unique and engaging perspective on the aftermath of a school shooting.
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"In this chilling cautionary tale, Myers revisits the themes of his Monster and Scorpions in a slightly more detached structure, but the outcome is every bit as moving," wrote PW in a starred review. Ages 14-up. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Gr 8 Up-Six months after a deadly shooting at a suburban high school, educators and psychological and criminal experts compile their interviews and analyses to assess any ongoing threat in the school environment. Through these documents, Myers skillfully tells the story of the shooting, its precipitating causes, and the aftermath for the shooter's closest friends. As in Robert Cormier's The Rag and Bone Shop (Delacorte, 2001), readers are made aware of the realistic and insidious biases different interrogators bring to their investigations. Seventeen-year-old Cameron Porter, the deceased shooter's closest friend, expresses himself one way when being debriefed by a psychologist and necessarily comes across differently when questioned by an FBI agent. Readers also are shown how such diverse types of inquiry are committed to paper with subtle but telling differences, as one interviewer asks that the transcriber retain Porter's pauses while the other directs the transcriber specifically to omit them. Other characters include the boys' one female friend, and, ultimately, Len, the shooter himself, through the clearly disturbed pages of his diary in the months leading up to the "incident." Myers uses no narrative frame other than the documents themselves and excels in providing clear and distinct voices through these interviews, notes, and reports; only the newspaper items lack a genuine ring. In addition to young adults who will find this story intensely readable as well as intense, adults working with teens should read and discuss the questions and implications that the tale reveals.-Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
When a shooting occurs at Madison High with two students killed and six injured, investigators try to get to the heart of the tragedy in hopes of preventing further occurrences. Absent or abusive parents, bullies at school, students feeling like powerless outsiders, access to guns, and a troubled student who's a "ticking bomb" waiting to go off seem to form the deadly combination, but is this after-the-fact analysis likely to help prevent future shootings? Told through transcripts of interviews, official reports, newspaper articles, Miranda warnings, and a handwritten journal, the story has the feel of an official report and about as much drama. The hodgepodge of documents and the dense print create a heaviness to the work, and readers may not have the patience to sift for the nuggets of insight the reports contain. Though the volume is not as effective in its innovative format as Myers's Monster (1999), the subject matter, as current as today's headlines, will attract readers. (Fiction. YA)
The powerful story of three teens caught in a web of violence springs to life in an audio format with multiple readers Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, and Michelle Santopietro. Compelling audio-taped interviews by the criminal and psychological investigators of The Harrison County School Safety Com-mittee introduce the listener to students Cameron and Carla. Their friend, Len, has turned his illegal weapon against a bullying classmate and then on himself. Cameron, though earnest and relaxed in his responses, is emotionally guarded; Carla’s husky tough-girl voice reflects her lower social class and nails her damaged psyche. Even Len, whom we hear from the grave through diary entries, is fully realized as an insolent, angry, rap-talking teen, suffering from deep feelings of hurt and betrayal. This evocative school shooting drama will serve as an indictment of criminal investigations, society, and the media. T.B. 2005 YALSA Selection © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
| BN ID: | 2940173583147 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 02/22/2005 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
Shooter
Submitted by:Dr. Jonathan Margolies
Superintendent, Harrison County Board of EducationDr. Richard Ewings
Senior County PsychologistSpecial Agent Victoria Lash
F.B.I. Threat Assessment AnalystDr. Franklyn Bonner
Spectrum GroupSheriff William Beach Mosley
Harrison County Criminal Bureau
Mission Statement The Harrison County School Safety Committee, headed by Dr. Jonathan Margolies, is to investigate public school safety using interviews and all available records, with particular emphasis on the tragic events of last April; and to analyze and assess all pos-sible threats and dangers within the County's school community; and to report to the Governor of this State any findings consistent with imminent or possible threats to:
- Any student or group of students
- Any educator or administrator
- Any other person
- Any structure or building
It is understood by the members of the Safety Committee that the generated report will not carry a prima facie legal obligation but that it might be used in some legal capacity, and that all inter-viewees must be informed of their Miranda rights.
Madison High School Incident Analysis Report I -- Interview with Cameron Porter
Submitted by Dr. Richard Ewings,
Senior County Psychologist
Cameron Porter is a seventeen-year-old African American youth who attended Madison High School in HarrisonCounty. His grades ran in the high eighties and there is no indication, in his school records, of difficulty in social adjustment. He lives in a two-parent household and is the only child. The parental income is quite high, and there is no indication of deprivation.
Cameron has been advised that the interviews will not be privileged and that they can be subpoenaed for any subsequent legal action, but that the primary aim of the interviews is for analytical purposes. He has agreed to be interviewed in an effort to cooperate with the Analysis team and has signed a waiver to that effect.
He appeared at my office punctually, accompanied by his mother, who then left for another appointment. Cameron is a good-looking young man, neatly dressed, of medium to dark complexion. He seems reasonably comfortable and no more nervous than would be expected under the circumstances. A letter informing Cameron of his Miranda rights was drafted, signed by him, and put on file.
The initial taped interview began at 10:30 on the morning of October 24. This was six months after the incident at the high school.
Notes to transcriber:
Dr. Richard Ewings
Richard Ewings: Good morning.
Cameron Porter: Good morning.
RE: Do you mind if I call you Cameron?
CP: Fine.
RE: Cameron, can we begin by you telling me something about yourself? Where do you live? Who do you live with? That sort of thing?
CP: Sure. I live over on Jewett Avenue. I live with my mom, Elizabeth, and my father.
RE: Can you give me your father's name and tell me what sort of work your parents do?
CP: My father's name is Norman. He does quality control for Dyna-Rod Industries. They manufacture heavy equipment, and they lease it to building contractors. What he does is travel around and check out how the leasing end of their business works. My mother works for an office-supply company.
RE: What would heavy equipment consist of?
CP: Cranes, derricks, specialized vehicles.
RE: How would you describe how you get along with your parents?
CP: Okay. Just normal I guess.
RE: Do you go out with them much? Are there family conversations, say, around the dinner table?
CP: My father travels a lot. He's away about a week and a half every month. Maybe more, I don't know. We sort of -- I wouldn't say that we talk a lot. I wouldn't say that we don't talk a lot, either. We go out -- we used to go out to eat once a month. Arturo's. You know where that is?
RE: About a mile off 95, isn't it?
CP: Down from the mall.
RE: Right. That's a nice place. Good Italian food. Do you enjoy eating there?
CP: It's okay. No big deal. They like it.
RE: What kinds of things do you talk about at Arturo's? Actually, what kinds of things do you enjoy talking about with your parents?
CP: I guess we don't really talk that much. When we do talk -- usually it's about something -- maybe about their jobs or something. They talk about their jobs a lot. They're trying to -- they have these goals they work on. You know, what they want to accomplish every year, that sort of thing.
RE: What do you think of their goals?
CP: Their goals? They're okay. They have things they want to do. Financial security -- that sort of thing. They're, like, doing the right things.
RE: When you say they're doing the right things, do you mean that you think they're doing the right things?
CP: Yeah. Yes, I guess so.
RE: How would you describe your relationship with your parents? Can you tell me how you think you get along with them, perhaps if there were different things you would have liked to have done with them than you were doing?
CP: They asked me that at the county office.
RE: And what did you say?
Shooter. Copyright © by Walter Myers. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
