Nineteen Minutes |
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| Authors: | Picoult, Jodi |
| Topics: | Teen Topics, Family & Siblings, School Life |
| Lexile: | 890, |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| ISBN: | 9781416538950, |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 471, |
Synopsis: In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. 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. Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. Do we ever really know someone?
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