Shooter

Name: Shooter
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.13 (8 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9780060839192

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, Michelle Santopietro

Unabridged: 3 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/22/2005

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Epistolary

Synopsis

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.""

About Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers was recognized by every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and five Coretta Scott King Book Award winners. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award finalist as well as the first ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by MsAprilVincent on August 20, 2008

I honestly don't know how Walter Dean Myers does it. How can he be such a genius? It's unfathomable. This is the story of a teenager who is often bullied by classmates who eventually loses it and opens fire in his school, killing his arch-enemy and himself. The book opens after the fact. I liked the f......more

Goodreads review by Georgina on September 30, 2018

I like this book but I didn't like the characters because it's just was so depressing for me and the reality is that this kind of situations happened I been studying in America for 2 years, I was afraid to go to school after see the school shooting that happened in Florida because that's never happen......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on January 11, 2021

Disturbing and powerful, this short book evoked a myriad of real emotions from me as I read. This is a dark story written in mixed media format about the aftermath of a school shooting. It delves into this tragedy from perspectives I haven’t seen in literature. I was riveted to every page. Trigger w......more

Goodreads review by Keira on November 19, 2014

At Madison High School, if you don't fit in, you're an "outsider." And outsiders stick together. That's exactly what Cameron, Leonard, and Carla did. They were very close friends and could never stay mad at each other too long, no matter what they did to deserve the hate. Cameron and Leonard are bul......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 15, 2012

Walter Dean Myers' Shooter is a multigenre work that takes a look at a fictional school shooting and events leading up to it. We don't actually witness the shooting happen, but learn about it after the fact from interviews, police reports, and a diary. School shootings has been a topic of film and n......more