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This Is Where It Ends

by Marieke Nijkamp

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Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun. 10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 The auditorium doors won't open. 10:05 Someone starts shooting. Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.

Interpersonal relationsSchool shootingsHigh schoolsSchoolsJuvenile fictionFictionChildren's fictionSchools, fictionInterpersonal relations, fictionViolence, fictionnyt:young-adult-hardcover=2016-03-20New York Times bestseller