[LM_NET] HIGH Review Hate List

[Becky Jackman <rebecca.jackman@CMCSS.NET>]

Hate List by Jennifer Brown is an amazing book. I cried while I first read
it and I cried again a week later when I reread most of it. Valerie Leftman
tells her story by alternating between the present and the past, and through
newspaper articles. The newspaper articles are about the school shootings
that Valeriešs boyfriend, Nick, committed and for which Valerie may or may
not have been responsible.

Valerie is wounded during the shootings, but the story is about her
emotional healing. Valerie struggles with coming to grips about what
happened and her part in it. Her family, her friends, and her school all
have to deal with some of the same issues that Valerie is working through.
The story is emotionally gripping in several places and once the story grabs
you, you canšt put the book down.

I wholeheartedly recommend the book to all young adult librarians and I
would like to thank Lisa Von Drasek from EarlyWord Kids and Victoria
Stapleton from Little, Brown Young Readers for the wonderful opportunity to
read this story. Hate List will be available in September 2009 from Little,
Brown Young Readers. Please add it to your collections.


Becky Jackman
School Librarian
Northeast High School
Clarksville, TN

Rebecca.jackman@cmcss.net

THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY STATE IS THE EDUCATION OF ITS YOUTH
Dionysius

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