This Is Where It Ends
by Marieke Nijkamp
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 780L · 304 pages · 2017
Why we'd hand it over
A unflinching school-shooting narrative told in real time through interwoven perspectives; emotionally demanding but deliberately structures empathy for the shooter as a bullied gay teen, forcing readers to hold contradictory truths.