School Violence

In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King's keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done.

In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection - both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava’s best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun’s father had been shot to death outside of the boy’s elementary school. Ava’s and Tyshaun’s stories are extraordinary, but not unique.

On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetrators, and the administrators who oversaw their cases, sociologist Nicole Bedera exposes the structures that predictably punish survivors who come forward in the service of protecting—or even rewarding—their perpetrators. She reveals that the system tasked with ending gender inequality on campus only intensifies it, upending survivors’ lives and threatening their degrees.

It won’t happen to you. Unless it does. In his new self-defense book, How to be a Superhero, internationally renowned Krav Maga instructor James Hiromasa addresses one uncomfortable truth: You’re not prepared for a life-or-death attack. When faced with a mass shooter or terrorist, is it safer to follow the crowd or go-it-alone? When should you hide, and when you should you run? And what can you do to avoid these situations altogether? This book answers these questions and more, equipping you with the awareness, avoidance, and action skills that you need to be safer now. Inspired by real...

Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, 12 people are dead. In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a disillusioned student, a grieving professor, and a young man whose valuation of fear and disconnection funnels him into the role of the aggressor.

These letters may be very disturbing to some. The names have been changed to protect the loved ones left behind. They are in no way meant to make judgments on others or cause more pain and suffering. They are a study of human behavior to help others understand the pain and suffering these people went through and encourage others to offer understanding and help when they can.

Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But it's impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and trouble always follows trouble. When Dills hurts a new classmate, it comes out in court that he was in the Windsor High library when the shooter came in. But he won't talk about what he saw, what he still sees whenever he closes his eyes.

*Winner 2024 International Impact Books Award - Mystery/ Thriller category * Second place winner of the International Firebird Book award * Literary Titan 5 stars review: "The Weight of Rage, by Ruben Elustondo, delves into the tumultuous life of high school cheerleading, friendship, and hidden vendettas. Set against a backdrop of competitive teenage sports, it explores the unraveling of relationships and the lengths to which people go to protect their desires. Lucia Romero, the new girl who threatens the established social hierarchy, soon becomes entangled in a web of jealousy, ...

Londyn and her friends have practiced several lockdown drills at their school to prepare them in the event of an emergency. But they never imagine they'd experience a real active threat and hostage situation on their campus, changing their lives and the lives of their classmates forever...

“Unquiet riot is a psychological sledgehammer of a thriller with a tension so relentless you’ll find yourself ready to snap.” - Kayla Ancrum, author of The Wicker King A psychological thriller that will appeal to fans of My Sister Rosa—this story explores the consequences of silence about bullying and mental illness. Riley is not a psychopath. It’s just that he was born unable to understand emotions. Is that person embarrassed or insecure? Suspicious or curious? It’s confusing when someone says, “Please don’t hate me,” but their face says, “You should definitely hate me ...

School of Errors: Rethinking School Safety in America establishes another voice in the discussion of how to promote safe schools. It challenges the unchecked expansion of school fortification and questions the realized benefit of interagency collaboration during a sentinel event. This book offers an alternative to traumatizing simulations by providing clear options for improving school safety through leakage detection and sensemaking. School of Errors restores the scientific method to school safety and clears a path through the media rhetoric fogging this vital topic.

Different minds learn differently. We must pay attention to individual learning patterns, to individual minds so that we can maximize children's performance in school and in life. In A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows us how.

Everything about Kalvin King’s life is finally “hella” good. The seventeen-year-old high school Junior from Oakland has seemingly overcome the trauma of losing his mother at an early age. An unfortunate accident, plus his father’s need to relocate to South Central Los Angeles completely destabilizes Kalvin emotionally, bringing out pain he’d kept bottled up. Perhaps a fresh start in the City of Angels is exactly what Kalvin needs? Kalvin gets a rude awakening at his new school, Lincoln. Mexican American/Chicano males (homies and gangsters) mean-mug him, and call him, “m...te,”...

When a young Muslim high school student is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, her school counselor gets involved to clear her record in this ripped-from-the-headlines romantic thriller from the author of Vanished in the Night and Cover Me In Darkness. When Lily Simon finds cops in the lobby of the high school where she’s a guidance counselor, she’s not surprised: cops and adolescents go together like sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. But when the cops take Jamila, a Muslim student, into custody for a crime she didn’t commit, Lily’s high school becomes a powder keg. Police ...

From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality. Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress.

The mother of a bullied first grader, popular blogger Carrie Goldman's inspiring true story triggered an outpouring of support from online communities around the world. In Bullied, she gives us a guide to the crucial lessons and actionable guidance she's learned about how to stop bullying before it starts. It is a book born from Goldman's post about the ridicule her daughter suffered from bringing a Star Wars thermos to school.

‘This clever generic hybrid is an addictive blend, reminiscent of the TV series Teachers mixed with detective noir.’ The Independent. Truant. Drunk. Sexually deviant.And that’s just the English teacher. It's the last day of term at the Gilda Ball Academy and time is running out: a teacher faces the sack following an anonymous allegation of child abuse...Told within a single day, The Last Day of Term interweaves the gritty realities of teenage life in an inner-city school with a touching and comic story of a man in crisis.Teacher Martin Hick is about to get the promotion he s wanted ...

Fourteen-year-old Seth Wilcox has been admitted to the hospital forty-eight times, according to his mother’s latest social media posts, when Social Services steps in and takes Seth into care, believing his mother suffers from Munchausen by Proxy and Seth is not safe in her care. Gabriel Tate is now a veteran in dealing with medical kidnap and reuniting children with their families. He knows Seth and his mom, Leva, a tireless mitochondrial disorder advocate. He knows he needs to get Seth back to Leva as soon as he can. With the authorities hot on their trails, Gabriel and Renata face ...

Rhiannon Broderick grew up knowing New York City as one word: home. That is, until her world comes crashing down, leaving her with no love-of-her-life and no best-friend-forever. Even her parents have no idea how to deal with their daughter. With one last hope, Mom and Dad take drastic measures: sending her to live with Aunt Vicky on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio. That’s okay for Rhiannon, though. The fewer people, the better. With her graduation happening soon – only 270 days and counting - she plans to travel far away in isolation where no one knows where she is. But on the first ...

Elijah Thomas knows one thing better than anyone around him: basketball. But when a sinister street gang, Blood Street Nation, wants him and his team members to wear the Nation’s colors in the next big tournament, Elijah’s love of the game is soon thrown into jeopardy. The boys gather their courage and take a stand against the gang, but at a terrible cost. Now Elijah must struggle to balance hope and fear, revenge and forgiveness, to save his neighborhood. For help, he turns to the most unlikely of friends: Banks, a gruff ex–military man, and his beautiful and ambitious daughter.