Give a Boy a Gun by Tod Strasser

The story to give a boy a gun is about a group of four kids who are bullied throughout school for being weird, strange and even for being new. Out of the group there are two individuals who have been tormented to their breaking point. Brendan and Gary who have been best friends since they meet in middle school were done with this life; they couldn’t handle the everyday torture. As the story goes in the bullying becomes worse to the point where these two purchase weapons and learn how to create and detonate bombs. At this point they feel as if revenge and killing their tormentors is the only way to escape this life. The main part of the story happens at the Middletown high school dance where it just so happens that all of their bullies happen to be. As the dance goes on Brendan and Gary enter the gym with trench coats on fully armed. They tie the students and some faculty up and lay them down in the gym. While inside the police arrive but the gym doors have been rigged to blow up if they are opened. As they try to negotiate with them Brendan goes off and shoots a teacher in the arm an...