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Shooter - Walter Dean Myers (CD)
Title: Title: Shooter Author: Walter Dean Myers Genre: Childrens/Teen Fiction & Literature Format: CD, 3 CDs, 3.5 Hours (Unabridged) Synopsis: What is it like to be an outsider at home and at school? Leonard, Cameron, and Carla struggle to find their way, but when Leonard goes on a shooting rampage at school, his friend Cameron finally gets his own wake-up call. Told through a series of interviews, reports, newspaper articles, and excerpts from Leonard's journal, Shooter unveils a bleak picture of what life can be like for a teen misfit. In his provocative, edgy style, Walter Dean Myers weaves a riveting tale of the world of three loners -- their anguish, anger, and vulnerability. Review: School Library Journal Gr 8 Up-Six months after a deadly shooting at a suburban high school, educators and psychological and criminal experts compile their interviews and analyses to assess any ongoing threat in the school environment. Through these documents, Myers skillfully tells the story of the shooting, its precipitating causes, and the aftermath for the shooter's closest friends. As in Robert Cormier's The Rag and Bone Shop (Delacorte, 2001), readers are made aware of the realistic and insidious biases different interrogators bring to their investigations. Seventeen-year-old Cameron Porter, the deceased shooter's closest friend, expresses himself one way when being debriefed by a psychologist and necessarily comes across differently when questioned by an FBI agent. Readers also are shown how such diverse types of inquiry are committed to paper with subtle but telling differences, as one interviewer asks that the transcriber retain Porter's pauses while the other directs the transcriber specifically to omit them. Other characters include the boys' one female friend, and, ultimately, Len, the shooter himself, through the clearly disturbed pages of his diary in the months leading up to the "incident." Myers uses no narrative frame other than the documents themselves and excels in providing clear and distinct voices through these interviews, notes, and reports; only the newspaper items lack a genuine ring. In addition to young adults who will find this story intensely readable as well as intense, adults working with teens should read and discuss the questions and implications that the tale reveals.-Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.