By Alyssa P
The book i'm reviewing if "Nineteen minutes" by Jodi Picoult. She's written other books such as "Handel with care", "House rules", and "Salem falls". The genre of this book represents Fiction. The book is about a 17 year old high school student Peter Houghton who has been through years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, put under peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular kids that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Also there's a big school shooting that she talks about in the book. The rest of the book describes what happened to peter, and all the kids who harassed him.
The things I liked about this book was that peter didn't care what people thought of him, and even though he was shy he overcame that. Also it shows that lying and saying you brought a gun to school isn't something you should joke about as Jodi Discusses near the end of the book.
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