Hate List

By Jennifer Brown
(YA F Brow)
408 pages 2009 Realistic Fiction

It was a May morning when Nick pulled out a gun in the school Commons and killed six students, one teacher, and wounded many others before ultimately turning the gun on himself. Sixteen-year-old Valerie believed that the hate list she and her boyfriend Nick created was a way to release stress and to silently get back at the people who tormented or annoyed them. For Nick, it had turned out to be something more. It was Valerie who stopped the shooting by jumping in front of a bullet meant for another student. In the aftermath of that May morning, Valerie struggles with her role; was she a hero or partly to blame? (Grades 8 & up)

Reviewed by Teen Librarian Elizabeth S.

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