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While shooter is fiction, with transcripts of interviews newspaper clippings, autopsy reports and diary excerpts, the book appears to document a real life event. Written in the style of an incident report, walter dean myers young adult novel shooter examines the aftermath of a school shooting by the young student len gray. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. Read a sample read a sample read a sample enlarge book cover. Written by walter dean myers, audiobook narrated by chad coleman, bernie mcinerney, michelle santopietro.
The first thing you might wonder when you start to read shooter, the chilling, poignant novel by walter dean myers, is did this really happen. The first edition of the novel was published in april 21st 1999, and was written by walter dean myers. Yet walter dean myers, winner of many awards for his young adult novels, brings freshness and new anguish to this familiar tale and growing social problem of unstable victim tormented by. I didnt like the book shooter by walter dean myers. At age two, myers s mother, mary green, died, and florence brown dean, his fathers exwife and her husband, herbert dean. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 281 pages and is available in paperback format. Deep inside, you know that whoever gets up in your face gets there because he knows youre nothing, and he knows that you know it too. Author of over seventy childrens and young adult books, walter dean myers was born walter milton myers on august 12, 1937, in martinsburg, west virginia. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Published on march 23, 2014 in awards full resolution 160. Shooter by walter dean myers, 9780064472906, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and. The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from.
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Shooter, by walter dean myers, is a novel of fiction that is inspired by a real life shooting. Shooter by walter dean myers audio book simply audiobooks. Shooter quotes showing of 3 pain is the only real emotion. In this chilling cautionary tale, myers revisits the themes of his monster and scorpions in a slightly more detached structure, but the outcome is every bit as moving. Disturbed by the school shooting at columbine high school in 1999, walter dean myers decided to research the events of the incident and create a fictionalized story that would carry a powerful message about bullying. Myers received every single major award in the field of childrens literature. All the right stuff 2012 in this thoughtprovoking novel tackling the social contract, paul dupree begins to understand the importance of taking control of his life after his father is shot. Copying the format used by investigators and psychologists to assess the threat of school violence, myers wrote shooter as a fictionalized threat analysis report with transcripts.
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