Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.

Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.

Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.

In a series of short interconnected poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives.

In a personal creed she wrote one month before her death, Rachel Scott explained her conviction that if one person goes out of his or her way to show compassion, it will start a world-changing chain reaction of kindness. Now her father is carrying on her crusade by challenging people of all ages to commit themselves to creating a revolution of compassion that can impact our troubled world.

"In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. How would you react in a life-or-death situation? It's a question everyone asks themselves, but few have to face in real life. English teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent...