Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult • 2007
Devastation Rating
school shooting bullying gun violence grief
Our Take
Peter Houghton is bullied for years and then opens fire in his high school for nineteen minutes. Picoult gives everyone — victim, perpetrator, parent, bystander — their own chapter, which is either the most humane or the most dangerous thing a novel about a school shooting can do.
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