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Taking Aim - Power and Pain Teens and Guns - cover

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Taking Aim - Power and Pain Teens and Guns

Peter Johnson, Francesca Lia Block, Chris Lynch, Tim Wynne-Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Dean Myers, Chris Crutcher, Alex Flinn, Michael Cart, Ron Koertge, Eric Shanower, Will Weaver, Marc Aronson, Edward Averett, Gregory Galloway, Jenny Hubbard, Elizabeth Wein

Publisher: HarperTeen

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Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late great Walter Dean Myers, the poetic Joyce Carol Oates, the prophetic Elizabeth Wein, and the gritty Chris Crutcher, these are evocative voices that each has a different perspective to give. Capturing the hurt and the healing, victims and perpetrators, these stories get to the heart of the matter. 
From a boy whose low self-esteem is impacted when a gun comes into his possession to a student recalling a senseless tragedy that befell a favorite teacher, from a realistic look at hunting to a provocative look at a family that defies stereotypes, each emotional story stirs the debate to new levels. The juxtaposition of guns and their consequences offers moving tales, each a reminder of how crucial the question of guns in our society is, and the impact they have on all of us. 
Other acclaimed contributors are Marc Aronson, Edward Averett, Francesca Lia Block, Alex Flinn, Gregory Galloway, Jenny Hubbard, Peter Johnson, Ron Koertge, Chris Lynch, Eric Shanower, Will Weaver, and Tim Wynne-Jones.
Available since: 09/07/2016.

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