People kill people, Ellen Hopkins
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People kill people, Ellen Hopkins
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
People kill people
Oclc number
1022688124
Responsibility statement
Ellen Hopkins
Summary
Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshotA gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression? Someone will fire. And someone will die. But who?--, adapted from amazon.com information
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
- Young adult works
- Juvenile works
- Prejudices -- Fiction
- Race relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Firearms -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Prejudices
- Novels in verse
- Firearms
- Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
- Violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Firearms -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Violence
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- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject20
- Young adult works
- Juvenile works
- Prejudices -- Fiction
- Race relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Firearms -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Prejudices
- Novels in verse
- Firearms
- Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
- Violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Firearms -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Violence
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1