“This thought-provoking book is both welcome and imperative.” – Booklist * (starred review). “Compact and suspenseful, the novel raises important questions about war.” – Kirkus His most recent young adult novel is Price of Duty:Ģ018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Vietnam, Woodstock, road trips, and acid trips: a sweetly bittersweet, surprising, even melancholy bildungsroman set against a world in flux. Readers fascinated with this time period will find much to enjoy. Kirkus review: "Strasser perfectly captures the golden haze of youth and life on the cusp of adulthood.
The picture painted of the Woodstock music festival shows the dark side of peace and love, and the prevalence of drugs is on almost every page…The best part of the book, however, is the one that transcends eras: Lucas' introspection as he contemplates his place in the world." In this loosely autobiographical novel, Strasser introduces 18-year-old Lucas, who is bright and sensitive but also a screw up…. “My feeling is that any kid who’s going to pick up a gun and shoot in schools is not going to pick up the idea in my book,” Todd Strasser said in the Express-Times.Todd Strasser is an American author of more than 130 novels for adults, young-adults, and middle graders.īooklist review: "Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll, those hallmarks of the summer of 1969, are all here, but there's so much more. “If a teenager has a question he feels uncomfortable asking an adult, he has to be able to find the answers somewhere.” “The library cannot and should not censor a student’s book selection,” said Pam Nelson, who oversees the district’s libraries. Each of the reconsideration committee’s nine members was disturbed by parts of the book-described as “vivid, distressing, and all too real” on a review at the top of the book jacket-although none voted to remove it. Published in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings, Give a Boy a Gun is a novel in which two students hold classmates and teachers hostage at a school dance. “I just want parents to know this type of material is out there, and they should be aware of what their children are reading.” She argued that school violence would be better addressed in a group than by having students coming across the topic in a school library book.
“I’m not trying to censor the book,” said Kathryn Ann Frangos, whose nephew is an 8th-grader at the school, in the January 22 Easton Express-Times. School board members agreed January 21, deciding against tweaking materials selection policy.
Give a Boy a Gun Triggers Challenge in PennsylvaniaĪ reconsideration committee for Bangor Area (Pa.) Middle School unanimously voted to keep Todd Strasser’s Give a Boy a Gun on library shelves over a student’s aunt’s concerns over the book’s depiction of school violence.
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