Heart in a body in the world by Caletti, Deb 

Paperback(Simon Pulse, 2020)

BTSB #: 181350 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 680 HL

Genres: Sports Family Life

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Running - Fiction Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction Social action - Fiction Massacre survivors - Fiction School shootings - Fiction

Summary: Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.

Lost Things Club by Puller, J. S. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2021)

BTSB #: 734762 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
F&P: X

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Cousins - Fiction Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction School shootings - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Visiting her lovable, younger cousin in Chicago over the summer, twelve-year-old Leah tries to help him recover from the trauma of a school shooting.

Lucky ones by Lawson, Liz 

Paperback(Delacorte Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 552222 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Guilt - Fiction School shootings - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all.

Only child by Navin, Rhiannon 

Paperback(Vintage Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 668422 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
Lexile: 880

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Loss (Psychology) - Fiction School shootings - Fiction Grief - Fiction

Summary: Squeezed into a coat closet with his classmates and teacher, first grader Zach Taylor can hear gunshots ringing through the halls of his school. They've practiced lockdown drills before-it was fun and exciting then. But this time it's not a drill. A gunman has entered the school, and in a matter of minutes he will take nineteen lives and irrevocably change the fabric of this close-knit community.

Shape of thunder by Warga, Jasmine 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2021)

BTSB #: 920466 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Death - Fiction Friendship - Fiction School shootings - Fiction Mental healing - Fiction

Summary: The story of how magical thinking helps two girls, Cora and Quinn, to heal after they are affected by gun violence and loss due to Quinn's brother shooting Cora's sister to death in a school shooting.

That's not what happened by Keplinger, Kody 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 514816 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.9 UG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 720 HL

Genres:

Subjects: School shootings - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Truth - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.

Violent ends

Paperback(Simon Pulse, 2016)

BTSB #: 475454 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.8 UG Lexile: 740 HL

Genres:

Subjects: School shootings - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Perspective (Philosophy) - Fiction

Summary: Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.