This book completely changed my overall perspective of how real it is when kids are pushed to the point of popping. I know how it feels to be pushed, but I never would think of attempting to kill my classmates. Strasser really took time to show his readers how people in our own world can treat kids, and teachers not do anything about it, when they see it and let it happen.

i love this book beacuse it shows hom many kids get pick on in school to the ponit they kill them selves :(

This book is beast. Everything is so vivid, so distressing, it makes you feel like you are in the story. There is merely a thing gap between this and reality. THe messages are positive and negative. It teaches kids that revenge is nessecary, but some kids might like to see the peril and blood.

This book contains the true opinions of the people involved in a school shooting, and it comes on really strong. This tells the realities of school bullying, and it's important that some kids learn about these things. I feel very safe at my high school, so I don't believe I really needed to read this, esp. with the language and drug/alcohol content. I think it depends more on a teens' or tweens' backgrounds, for whether they should read this book. But I definitely think that no one under fifteen should be reading this silently or by themselves. Grab a parents, grab a teacher, grab a friend. Read it out loud. For someone already heading that direction, this book could seem to glamorize the shooting scene. I still don't know if I should have given this book a one or a five.

i am a student and i had to read this in my English class at first i thought this book would be pretty dumb. as we read it each day and went over it with the class . i got intersted in it this book makes you think of all those kids you go to school with and see them get picked on by people day by day this could of happened to any school people just dont know what limits people have . i think this book is very good for all ages . i loved it .made me cry

This book is NOT appropriate for tweens/teens under 18. It has vindictive merciless violence that does not need to be promoted to kids. Their minds are not fully developed and able to cope with this and decipher such inhumane actions/behavior. Bullying is important to discuss and teach about but we can look to actual news media for materials if needed. We do not need to have this fiction in our kids' minds at young ages.

This book is great to tell a realistic story about bullying and fire arms. Ilove this book and I think everyone should read it!

This book conveys messages that all adolescents, teachers, and other school faculty need to hear and understand. It shows how damaging bullying can be, why it needs to be prevented, and that violence and revenge are NOT the answers to the problem. The two shooters were portrayed as good children, but bullying caused one of them to spiral into a deep depression and the other to develop anger problems and violent tendencies. While the story is told from many different people who have very different opinions about what happened, they all agree on one thing: the shooting only made things worse for everyone. Even the friends of the shooters, who wanted revenge on the bullies, felt that the shooting was horrible and made things much worse off for them. The book, overall, conveys a positive message. There is some mild violence, which is not at all graphic, and some characters consume alcohol, but it is nothing that children haven't already heard about before. I read this book when I was 12, along with the rest of my seventh grade class, and I didn't see anything wrong with it. I would especially recommend this book to all teachers, so they could understand how to prevent bullying and future school shootings.