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All teen and kid reviews for Give a Boy a Gun
Average rating based on 12 kid and teen reviews:
- 50% say it's educational
- 42% say violence is an issue
- 33% say there are positive messages
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Great book.
Epic book. I cried when I finished it <3
What alot of parents won't get is, the authors purpose in writing the book was to prevent future school shootings. I mean, it was pretty obvious to me. I almost couldn't get my mom to buy the book for me because of the subject. The book had a lot of information and facts promoting further gun control and anti-bullying programs in schools at the bottom of each page.
It is a tough subject to talk about, but ignoring it never helps.
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I loved this book!!!
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.
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They should have succeeded!
I read this book and I'm disappointed that they didn't succeed. They deserved good revenge for all those years of torture. But overall it was a great book and you should read it if you haven't already.
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AGE
i love this book beacuse it shows hom many kids get pick on in school to the ponit they kill them selves :(
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This book is ok for kids 13+ even though I am only 11
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.
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Intense
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.
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AGE
Not the best book.
Very violent. not a fan of this book.
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AGE
Great for tweens and teens
This book is great to tell a realistic story about bullying and fire arms. Ilove this book and I think everyone should read it!
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All adolescents and school faculty should read this book!
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.
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made me think
This book was very interesting. Not only does it perfectly describe what happens in schools today, but it also gets inside of the kids heads who have to live through it. I mean, who hasn't thought about killing someone you really don't like? Or who hasn't thought that maybe it would be better do commit suicide than live? It's something everyone has to go through, and the author tells just how bad it can get. The consequences to bullying are obvious, and this book sends a message.
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still reading it
okay, i'm rading this book in my english class and so far so god. i love this book! but i have a couple questions. when they are talking about killings, that have happened in the past, at the bottom of each page, they frequently talk about this massacre where 2 boys shoot up their school and then they committed suicide and this massacre is what brought the book "give a boy a gun" as my teacher says. but i want to know what the massacre was called because i want to read about it.
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