Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult

Throughout Peter Houghton's life, he has been bullied, everything from having his lunch stolen to being flagged in the middle of the cafeteria, from getting stuffed into a locker to having a private e-mail sent to the whole school. But can twelve years of being the victim give you the right to open fire on a whole school? That's what Peter Houghton did. He came into school with four guns, killing 10 and injuring many, many more.

Throughout this provocative novel, a serious question come up, who was the victim? Was it the bullies who were shot that day, or the one bullied his whole life? The parents who lost their children or the Houghtons, who realized they lost their child a long time ago?

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Jodi Picoult majored in creative writing at Princeton. After she graduated, she worked odd jobs, such as copyrighter, techinical worker, an editor, and an English teacher. She then got a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Now, she is married to Ton Van Leer with three kids. She wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, when she was pregnant with her first child.

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