Give a Boy a Gun
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Give a Boy a Gun
Todd Strasser
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High school sophomores Gary Searle and Brendan Lawlor have had enough. Day in and day out, for more than two years, they have been harassed, beaten up, and cursed out by most of the jocks at Middleton High--especially by football player Sam Flach. Armed with guns they've stolen from a neighbor's collection, Gary and Brendan storm a school dance, booby trap all the doors with homemade bombs, and prepare to turn their high school caste system upside down with a violent show of force. When it's all over, Sam Flach is alive (but without any hope of a future football career), Gary has killed himself, and Brendan is in a coma, after being beaten almost to death by other students who managed to disarm him. Could this tragedy have been prevented? Who, if anyone, is to blame?

Consisting of short, related statements from students, parents, school administrators, and even the troubled shooters themselves, Give a Boy a Gun attempts to give a voice to the countless sides of the school violence issue. Is this novel disturbing and at times difficult to read? Yes, of course it is. But it is also an articulate, well-rounded cross section of the many viewpoints on gun control, peer bullying, and the high school social order since the traumatic events that took place in Littleton, Colorado. While Strasser readily acknowledges that there are no easy solutions to the problem of school violence, this powerful book will be a useful tool for parents and teachers alike in exploring this issue and finding some ways of resolving the tragic escalation of teen violence. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a school dance. In the panic of this desperate situation, it soon becomes clear that only one thing matters to Brendan and Gary: revenge.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Close Look at School Violence.......2007-06-07

Middletown High School seems a school like any other. There are athletes, especially football players, who feel like they own the place. In some cases they are right; the teachers treat them with a different set of standards and allow them to get away with more than anyone else. There are lots of regular kids and at the other end of the spectrum from the football crowd are the students who are considered freaks. These are the students who are the constant targets of the football players and often of the teachers who recognize the way the system works. It's just like any other high school, and it is dangerous.

Gary and Brendan are two students who are considered freaks. They are constantly bullied by the athletes. They are called names, pushed in the halls, and sometimes they are worried about worse violence. The athletes think they deserve their bad treatment for having no school spirit, for not buying into the glory of athletics. They did it to themselves, some people think. But to Brendan and Gary, it's simply an unfair system that forces them to feel upset and angry every day.

These boys aren't content to just feel angry, though. After years of being pushed around and treated badly, they have finally decided to do something about it, to fight back. They are going to make many of their fellow students and even some of their teachers pay with their lives. They are going to shoot some and bomb others. When the night of the big dance comes, will they be able to pull off this plot? Will someone notice something is terribly wrong and step in?

I liked how the story was told from so many points of view, so you could see how most people didn't think they were doing anything wrong. Even the tormentors couldn't seem to see the results of their actions. I liked the facts about guns at the bottoms of the pages; I was surprised by some of the information.

At the end of the book, many of the characters didn't get it. They still thought the whole tragedy was because Brendan and Gary were crazy, instead of looking at themselves as being partly to blame.

4 out of 5 stars A great inside on all views of school shootings.......2007-01-31

A work of fiction base on facts of numerous school shootings. The book shows diary entries of the two boys who plan and execute the shooting as well as interviews with the survivors and news articles.

The book was very well put together, but the most emotional part was at the end where they show real-life facts about school shooting since the 1970's. The facts and stats will bring tears to your eyes. It also gives you the opinion of the author about what needs to be done and I think we could all learn from his point of views.

5 out of 5 stars Give a Boy a Gun.......2007-01-24

This is the best book that I have read in a long time. I think that many teenagers today can completly relate to what these boys went through in their high school years.

5 out of 5 stars Good Book.......2007-01-13

This is a good book. I read this book for English Class and gave a report on it in contrast to A Columbine Survivor's Story. Everybody thought it was really interesting that I could show two different sides of (basically) the same situation. This book is not for younger kids, but definitely worth reading.

4 out of 5 stars great book.......2006-11-21

11/19/06
Give a Boy a Gun
The book Give a Boy a Gun is a very good book, I only recommend it to people in middle school and up because of the language. In this book there are two kids named Gary and Brendan, they are two kids that have just moved to town and they are being teased by the school jocks. After a while the reader can tell that they are getting pretty sick of being teased so they think of something that they can do to be remembered by this town for the rest of their lives.
One of the main characters in the story is Gary. Gary is a new kid that just moved to town and is being teased by the jocks because of his goofy looks and his blond hair, and is a trouble maker. Now, another new kid in town is Brendan. He is a trouble maker, he has already been kicked out of two schools and now he is in another one. He is the kind of kid that likes to carry around guns, knives, and other weapons like that. After a while the two boys get fed up with all of the teasing that is being done to them, so they come up with a plan to get back at all of the people that have teased them throughout the years. Then a little while later the two boys started coming up with plans to start shooting the people that have teased them. The more the two boys thought about it the more they wanted to do more. So the boys went online and tried to figure out how to make a plastic explosive. When the boys found out, they made one and went to an abandoned house and let one off.


In this book one thing that I liked a lot about it was that it gave facts about guns and other weapons. Because I go hunting and I like to read facts about guns that maybe I don't already know. One thing that I really didn't like about the book though was how sometimes it would skip around and I would get lost and then it would pick back up in that same spot a chapter or so later.
There are a couple twists in this book, like when they all of a sudden go out and get a gun then start making a plan to do stuff with the gun to other people that have teased them over the years. This book was a real page turner because once I start a story and it catches my attention then I just can't put it down. The pace of the book was kind of slow because it added a lot of extra detail that I don't think that it really needed, and I think that instead of this book being almost 200 pages it could have been more like 130 or something around that area. I think that kids around the age of 12 to 16 will enjoy this book. It isn't really for the younger kids because of the language and some of the things that they do in it but kids that are older and more mature I think it would be a good book for them. I recommend this book because it feels like a true story and you can learn so much from reading it like what can really happen any day, to anybody, because they got teased by a bully and just got fed up with all of it.
Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
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Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
Jack Olsen
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4 out of 5 stars Solid True Crime Book.......2005-03-07

A very compelling story told nicely in one of the earlier books of true crime writer Jack Olsen.

The story is fairly and dramatically presented and the author does of good job of giving the reader charachter background to make the story matter.

5 out of 5 stars An excellent book that I recommend to anyone.......2005-01-04

This book was extremely well written, and I would recommend it to anyone, regardless of their particular interests or hobbies. I know it is a cliche to say that "I could not put this book down," but it fits here. Olsen's writing style is easy and flows well. The whole story is so tragic, but I think the author does a good job of analyzing the events surrounding the murders of two Idaho fish and game wardens. Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr. is clearly a murderer and yet he also has some sympathetic qualities that the author brings forth. It's a shame that the book is out of print, but if you look hard enough you can get a copy (thankfully, Internet searches will make it easier for you).

5 out of 5 stars a truer review.......2000-06-20

In getting to know Claude via correspondence for several years,I believe that I can make a fairly accurate assessment of Claude's true character. Therefore, I believe I can fairly assess the book's veracity and plausibility. The book was interesting, entertaining, and exciting. Mr. Olsen presented the story in as truthful a manner as he could-considering he did not know Claude. In my opinion, overall, a very good book!

2 out of 5 stars Give a Boy a Gun.......2000-03-23

Read "Outlaw" by Jeff Long as well. He interviewed several key people that Mr. Olsen did not include (most declined to be interviewed at the time). All in all a fairly accurate and factual book and if you lived in the area at the time it stirs strong memories and emotions. Those who lived close to the events cannot forget Bill Pogue and Conley Elms.

5 out of 5 stars The Title Says it All..........1999-06-25

As the daughter of Bill Pogue, one of the Game Wardens murdered by Claude Dallas, I know the true story of what happened that day. Jack Olson did a wonderful job of interviewing almost anyone involved and investigating the lifestyle of Claude Dallas that led to this tragic event. I learned as much from reading this book as I did sitting through the long and frustrating trial.
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5 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-01-17

Every person in the world should read this book. That being said, I'll admit right off that I hate guns. Absolutely abhor them. I'm the mother who refuses to let her children play with toy guns, even water pistols. Why? Why, indeed. Why let your children shoot things at each other--whether it be water, rubber darts, BBs, or paint balls--if you don't want them to shoot bullets at each other? After all, that's what guns are for. To shoot bullets. Bullets that are designed to do one thing, and one thing only--kill. Or, if you prefer, injure, maim, dismember, or wound.

So what is GIVE A BOY A GUN about? In a few words, human nature, the cruelty of children, and how those factors don't really mix well with guns. Oh sure, gun activists say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." And, if you get technical about it, they're right. But when someone gives you a guitar, what's it for? It produces musical sounds. Yes, it needs an actual human to aide it along, but a guitar does what it's made to do--make music. Just like a gun, with the aide of a human, does what it's supposed to do--kill.

In Todd Strasser's GIVE A BOY A GUN, we learn about Brendan and Gary, two boys who live each day of school in their own personal hell. They're not athletic, so the jocks pick on them. They're not particularly brainy, so they don't fit in with the nerds. They don't come from extremelely wealthy families, so they're not immediately deemed popular. In fact, Brendan and Gary are like 95% of every teenager you meet--normal kids living normal lives, trying their best to just get through the day. I remember all too well the horror and terror of high-school; not physical, at least in my case, but the sheer emotional bullying that I received from kids who deemed me not up to par. And the teachers who turn a blind eye, either because the tormentors were too valuable to the school as athletes, or too much trouble to deal with.

But for Brendan and and Gary, enough turns out to be enough. Really, how much torment can one person take? When teachers and administration and counselors turn the other way, when budget restraints prevent teachers from the ability to really get to know their students, when athleticism takes precedent over brain power, when will school bullying come to an end? Why, really, should it shock us as a nation when things like Columbine happen? Has it really been so long ago that you were in school that you can't remember what it was like to be the object of someone's daily put-downs, or the sneers and snide comments from the "popular" kids?

Gary and Brendan, along with a few others like them, were "outcasts" in their school. When their fascination with revenge on those who've tormented them leads to guns, it really shouldn't surprise anyone. GIVE A BOY A GUN is interspersed with tragic facts--school shootings over the last several decades, quotes from newspaper articles, statistics from gun companies--that prove that teens and guns is a growing problem. But really, when you think about it, why should it shock us? We always see signs that proclaim a school a "drug-free zone", but when will we ever see one that proclaims it a "bully-free zone", or a "tolerance for everyone" zone?

Think about why kids are so cruel, why they can't get noticed by those who could possibly help them, and why they can so easily get a gun to make their problems go away.

Just as every person in the world (adult and teen) should watch the movie Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut), everyone in the world needs to read Todd Strasser's utterly though-provoking GIVE A BOY A GUN. And then we'll talk about how "guns don't kill people."

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
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    'Like Columbine! Viva Columbine!' Abjection and the representation of school violence in young adult fiction.: An article from: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
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      'Like Columbine! Viva Columbine!' Abjection and the representation of school violence in young adult fiction.: An article from: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
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        Give a Boy a Gun
        Todd Strasser
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        5 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-01-17

        Every person in the world should read this book. That being said, I'll admit right off that I hate guns. Absolutely abhor them. I'm the mother who refuses to let her children play with toy guns, even water pistols. Why? Why, indeed. Why let your children shoot things at each other--whether it be water, rubber darts, BBs, or paint balls--if you don't want them to shoot bullets at each other? After all, that's what guns are for. To shoot bullets. Bullets that are designed to do one thing, and one thing only--kill. Or, if you prefer, injure, maim, dismember, or wound.

        So what is GIVE A BOY A GUN about? In a few words, human nature, the cruelty of children, and how those factors don't really mix well with guns. Oh sure, gun activists say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." And, if you get technical about it, they're right. But when someone gives you a guitar, what's it for? It produces musical sounds. Yes, it needs an actual human to aide it along, but a guitar does what it's made to do--make music. Just like a gun, with the aide of a human, does what it's supposed to do--kill.

        In Todd Strasser's GIVE A BOY A GUN, we learn about Brendan and Gary, two boys who live each day of school in their own personal hell. They're not athletic, so the jocks pick on them. They're not particularly brainy, so they don't fit in with the nerds. They don't come from extremelely wealthy families, so they're not immediately deemed popular. In fact, Brendan and Gary are like 95% of every teenager you meet--normal kids living normal lives, trying their best to just get through the day. I remember all too well the horror and terror of high-school; not physical, at least in my case, but the sheer emotional bullying that I received from kids who deemed me not up to par. And the teachers who turn a blind eye, either because the tormentors were too valuable to the school as athletes, or too much trouble to deal with.

        But for Brendan and and Gary, enough turns out to be enough. Really, how much torment can one person take? When teachers and administration and counselors turn the other way, when budget restraints prevent teachers from the ability to really get to know their students, when athleticism takes precedent over brain power, when will school bullying come to an end? Why, really, should it shock us as a nation when things like Columbine happen? Has it really been so long ago that you were in school that you can't remember what it was like to be the object of someone's daily put-downs, or the sneers and snide comments from the "popular" kids?

        Gary and Brendan, along with a few others like them, were "outcasts" in their school. When their fascination with revenge on those who've tormented them leads to guns, it really shouldn't surprise anyone. GIVE A BOY A GUN is interspersed with tragic facts--school shootings over the last several decades, quotes from newspaper articles, statistics from gun companies--that prove that teens and guns is a growing problem. But really, when you think about it, why should it shock us? We always see signs that proclaim a school a "drug-free zone", but when will we ever see one that proclaims it a "bully-free zone", or a "tolerance for everyone" zone?

        Think about why kids are so cruel, why they can't get noticed by those who could possibly help them, and why they can so easily get a gun to make their problems go away.

        Just as every person in the world (adult and teen) should watch the movie Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut), everyone in the world needs to read Todd Strasser's utterly thought-provoking GIVE A BOY A GUN. And then we'll talk about how "guns don't kill people."

        Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

        5 out of 5 stars Gripping reading........2001-04-26

        "Give A Boy A Gun" is the story of two boys, Gary and Brendan, who are intelligent, friendly children. As they enter junior high, a caste system emerges, and they find themselves among the undesirables. This is a result of nothing they have done, but only because they are "different." Gary and Brendan soon become the victims of pranks, teasing and increasingly cruel treatment from the "popular" kids. This treatment is virtually ignored by school staff. As a result, the boys become angrier and more volatile. Soon they are talking about killing their tormentors and a gradual plan unfolds. During their sophomore year on the night of a school dance, Gary and Brendan take the school hostage.

        The book contains the voices of Gary and Brendan, their fellow students, friends, teachers and parents. This is done through interviews, e-mail messages and the boys' diaries and suicide notes. Gradually, through these voices, the reader witnesses the events that drive Gary and Brendan to their crime. It is difficult to tell that this is a work of fiction. The plot closely parallels what readers have come to know of the events of the Columbine school shooting.

        Nearly every page contains facts on handgun and/or school violence. At the end of the story, Strasser has included key events in the gun control issue as well as a list of school shootings that occurred during the writing of the book.

        "Give a Boy a Gun" should be required reading for teachers and other school officials. Parents should read it as well. It would be appropriate for young adults of either sex. The recommendation for adolescents must be guarded due to today's "copycat" incidents, although neither boys' actions are glorified. This is not a book with a happy ending. However, it grimly illustrates the effects of bullying, the junior high/high school caste system and the hesitation of society to accept anyone or anything outside of the dictated norms.
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          Victoria must wed . . . and immediately!

          To rescue her family from financial ruin, lovely Victoria Shelby has no choice but to marry. Her options for a bridegroom are limited . . . until she remembers the shy servant boy next door. Then she discovers that her childhood friend is actually Viscount Thurlow –– ruthless businessman, future earl, and a man whose family is shrouded in scandal!

          After two rejected marriage proposals, David Thurlow needs a wife who will give him an heir, someone who will not only overlook his past but also be above reproach. Victoria is the ideal candidate –– quiet, unassuming, and in desperate need of funds. But even as she strives to be the perfect wife, her calm demeanor masks a shocking secret . . . one that is overshadowed by David's slow, heated lessons in the art of seduction that threaten to transform a “convenient” marriage into a torrid and passionate affair.

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          4 out of 5 stars Nice Sweet Story.......2007-05-11

          When Victoria Shelby and her family are left destitute by her father, she realizes marriage would alleviate some of their problems. As a child, Victoria, whose father was in trade, left her personal diary out in a garden behind her house. A young boy, the son of the cook next door, finds it and starts writing things to her in it. Over the next ten years they develop a friendship recording things that they've told no one else and sharing it with each other. Victoria and "Tom" never meet face to face and one day, he stops writing back. Now, at twenty six years, Victoria wonders is Tom would keep his childhood vow of marrying her. When she goes next door and asks if they know the whereabouts of Tom, she is confronted by Viscount David Thurlow who confesses he was/is Tom. As a lonely child, David knew his parents would never allow him to correspond with a child outside of the nobility, so he concocts the name Tom and poses as the son of the cook so if they journal is ever discovered he and Victoria will be protected. After his mother died, he was sent away to school and years later when he returned it was to a bitter, very ill father. David's father indulged himself with a mistress moving her in shortly after the death of his wife and even though its been years, the nobility remember the scandal and David has been denied marriage to two young ladies already. When he finds out Victoria's dire circumstances, he proposes and shortly they are married. Victoria is still not sure she trusts David because his ruse as a child hurt her feelings, so she's asked him to postpone the wedding night until they get to know one another better. What Victoria discovers is that her husband is a brilliant man, a member of parliament and an investor in the railroad system but he is masking a load of personal hurt. David shuns the nobility and embraces his work, throwing himself into it so that he has little time for socializing. Each night David comes to Victoria and they explore each other slowly and soon Victoria is yearning to make love with her husband. However, she has withheld a secret from him she fears can destroy their marriage...how will they ever be happy if they can't come to terms.

          This is a sweet story the idea that they became such good friends without ever meeting unique. I was frustrated that it took so long for their relationship to develop but I guess that was part of the charm.

          3 out of 5 stars A prime example of the three B's........2007-04-21

          Wouldn't you hate to write a book and all a reviewer could think to say about it is that it is O.K.? Actually, this (for me) was a prime example of the three B's---blah, bland and boring! Sorry Ms Callen. I read the whole thing hoping that it would get better, become somewhat exciting, seem a little more probable. Once again, for me, it just did not happen.

          How likely is it that two people would live next door to each other for their entire lives and never meet (or her even SEE him)? Victoria found that Tom had written in her journal when they were both 10 years old. (Why did she leave the journal hidden outside under a bench?) Thus began a correspondence which lasted until they were 16 years old. He told her he was the son of the cook in the house next door. She was the daughter of a prominent banker. Naturally they would have been poles apart in the social order in 1828. But for them to have NEVER met? NEVER to have seen each other? NEVER to have talked? Please, that is simply totally unbelievable!

          Then in 1844 Victoria's life came crashing down when her father died. Now it is ten months later and her two younger sisters have left the home to find work to support themselves leaving Victoria to take care of their mother and to try to find some means of putting food on the table. They are only going to be allowed to remain in their home for several more months before the new owners arrive to take up residence. She has been selling off everything of value in order to keep her mother, their servant and herself alive. Now she is at her wits end. She decides to go next door and find Tom to get him to marry her. Do you believe that? Talk about improbable. She had not corresponded with the man since 1832 (because that is the last time he answered in the journal) but she decided to just waltz next door and find him and get married???

          Of course you all know by now that Tom, the son of the cook, never existed. Instead she finds Viscount Thurlow, David, who admits to having pretended to be Tom but now he wants to marry for his own private reasons and so will she marry him? Could this get any worse? (Actually, yes it could. I've struggled through some much worse!)

          He has his secrets which he doesn't want her to find out and will never discuss with her. These have caused him to have a morbid fear of scandals and so he makes her promise, as a condition of their marriage, that she will never cause a scandal. She has her secret which she can never reveal to him without causing a scandal, but you'll notice that she marries him anyway. Could she not see that train headed her way? (If you read the book you will understand the reference to the train!!) Oh, what ever shall we do? (Here you should apply your own appropriate hand gestures. I would suggest the back of your hand to your forehead and a faint swooning action.) Please, folks, these two had itty bitty "secrets" which had to be strung out over an immeasurable length of time in order to make a book. This "offering" was 374 pages long. Try 100 pages, put it in an anthology, and it might have been slightly more interesting. Even then, you had better have other knock-out authors to keep it propped up.

          Not a favorite of mine. It will be put into my to-go box now that I've written this review. Luckily for me, my name does not appear anywhere within its covers. Whoever buys it from the library Used Book Sale can't possibly blame me if they experience hours of tedium and boredom. Who knows, others seem to have liked it. Maybe the new owner will be luckier than I was.

          5 out of 5 stars Very pleasing story. .......2007-03-10

          The story is very pleasing. No terrible abuse or horrible treatment of each other. The two lead characters did at times treat each other poorly, but not abusively. I loved that as the book went on, they both grew and became better people/lovers/marriage partners. She and her family needed his money and house. He needed her steady character and for the fact that he could take satisfaction that he was able to help someone. The only thing I didn't go for was that she was so angry that as a child he didn't tell her who he really was. OK be annoyed, but she carried it too far. Still...loved the book.
          Highly recommend.

          2 out of 5 stars DIDN'T DO MUCH FOR ME.......2006-11-13

          This book just dragged on and on and on. I could hardly wait to get to the end.

          4 out of 5 stars A very enjoyable read with an unusual hero.......2006-08-02


          I agree with everything reviewer 'tregatt' has said, but I
          believe this book deserves a strong 4 stars.
          The Exiles Next Door: Singing the Lord's Song in a Foreign Land
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            The Exiles Next Door: Singing the Lord's Song in a Foreign Land
            Sam Whittaker
            Manufacturer: WingSpan Press
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            An exile is a person who has been broken, regarded as useless, and cast away. It's clear our world is full of exiles in need of assistance. Maybe you know some of them. Maybe you are one. But where is the Church God designed to care for them? For too long we have been an instrument of hurt rather than healing. Should we be so surprised a generation is leaving the Faith? The Church again needs to become a powerful force for good in this world. The Church must be the light of Christ to lead the exiles back home.
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              LORD NEXT DOOR
              GAYLE CALLEN
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              The Lord Next Door
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                Gayle Callen
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                    Gayle Callen
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