school shootings

When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children hostage, Officer Meg Barrett watches and waits for his demands, while Evelyn Oliver, trapped in her classroom, wonders how to save her students.

Brooks Brown, a 1999 graduate of Columbine High School, describes his longtime friendship with Dylan Klebold, his difficulties with Eric Harris before the shootings, and his experiences in the aftermath, during which he was suspected as an accomplice by the police and his classmates.

Provides insights into surviving school violence with advice and true stories of survivors. Includes stories of students who overcame bullying as well as those who have lived through shootings like those in Columbine and Virginia Tech.

Provides an account of the violent student shootings that took place at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.

Outlines the factors that contribute to an increase in school violence and offers strategies for identifying and working with problem youths. Features checklists and assessment tools designed to help educators evaluate possible threats.

Examines the events that surround some of the tragic school shooting incidents that took place in the United States during the twentieth century, and discusses the cases of Brenda Spencer, Wayne Lo, Evan Ramsey, Luke Woodham, and others.

Examine the criminal investigators who are on the frontline of the Columbine school shootings. Includes sidebars, bibliographies, full-color photographs, charts, graphs and index.

Provides an account of the shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, focusing on the teenage killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, drawing from interviews, police files, psychological studies, and writings and tapes by the boys to look at the signs they left that disaster was looming.

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant.