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April 22, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

#tearyya: the books that made us cry (and a sneak peek at VIOLENT ENDS)

April 22, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS   Leave a Comment

Yesterday I read an ARC of VIOLENT ENDS, and it made me cry. In a couple of places actually. That doesn’t happen as often as you would think it would. So that got me thinking, what books have made you actually cry? Several people shared their Teary YA Reads on Twitter with the hashtag #tearyya and I compiled them all here. You can add yours if you don’t see it listed in the comments.

About Violent Ends:

A novel with 17 authors, edited by Shaun David Hutchinson. The story centers on a 16-year-old school shooter, with each chapter set at a time around the shooting and told by characters who knew him, trying to answer one question: Why?

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Coming in September from Simon Pulse. Definitely put this on your TBR list and add it to your library collections.

Some other books that deal with the topic of school shootings:

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

Shooter by Walter Dean Myers

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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