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One Hundred, Sixty-Four Minutes
When 60 minutes decides to do a story on a school shooting at a small town high school in rural Ohio, students Erin Williams and Cameron Harding along with their former teacher, Maryanne Teague, and Principal Mason Kelley are forced to remember and relive the horrific day that led to the biggest change of their lives.
207 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 20, 2012
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August 1, 2018
Great Book!
Loved this book...read it in one sitting. Made me cry like I did reading Columbine. So much could change a person's life if there were no bullying. Sad but very good book.
Loved this book...read it in one sitting. Made me cry like I did reading Columbine. So much could change a person's life if there were no bullying. Sad but very good book.
April 30, 2014
After years of being bullied, Troy brings a gun to school. Inside the classroom the teacher who tried to help, his best friend, the bully and the bully's side kick. Shots will be fired.
Told in multiple third person POVs, readers get to see how the principal, teacher, best friend and side-kick viewed the incident. While this approach to story telling worked well, the repetitiveness of repeating the same scene and dialogue several times is the reason I didn't rate the book higher. The same literary device could have been used to advance, rather than reiterate the scenes and the book would gave been faster paced. I also didn't think Jason, the bully was particularly well written. I can't imagine many people taunting a gunman as being too weak to shoot. Sure, makes for good drama, but for me that took away from the realism.
I do recommend this book and hope many students, teachers and parents will read this novel.
Told in multiple third person POVs, readers get to see how the principal, teacher, best friend and side-kick viewed the incident. While this approach to story telling worked well, the repetitiveness of repeating the same scene and dialogue several times is the reason I didn't rate the book higher. The same literary device could have been used to advance, rather than reiterate the scenes and the book would gave been faster paced. I also didn't think Jason, the bully was particularly well written. I can't imagine many people taunting a gunman as being too weak to shoot. Sure, makes for good drama, but for me that took away from the realism.
I do recommend this book and hope many students, teachers and parents will read this novel.
July 23, 2015
I like the message of this book but the execution was pretty bad. Every page seemed to have spelling or grammar errors, words left out of sentences, etc. The fact is, school shootings can never be wrapped up in a neat little bow like this story seemed to tell. While it was a fast read that kept my interest, it was not well written by any account. Continuity errors abounded as well so it was hard to keep track of a timeline.
July 3, 2015
Save your money and time
Poorly written. Sloppily edited. The storyline was predictable. The chronology made my head hurt. Read like a junior high school essay.
Poorly written. Sloppily edited. The storyline was predictable. The chronology made my head hurt. Read like a junior high school essay.
September 16, 2015
It was a good book. The only things that I had problems with was it felt like it just kept repeating over and over. Also in some spots it felt like words were missing.
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