Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, ISBN 9781742372983

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Seventeen-year-old Peter has always been the target of the school bullies. And it gets worse when his former best friend, Josie, attaches herself to the cool kids. Josie knows that to stay popular, she can't stick up for Peter anymore; she even has to push him away.

When Peter snaps and opts for a revenge shooting rampage at school, the whole community is devastated, and desperate for justice. Josie survives, but her boyfriend is dead. Josie plagued by survivor guilt and trauma has erased her memory, but is she hiding anything else?

Jordon McAfee is determined to defend Peter. But secrets and lies and fragile emotions cloud the truth. What really happened in those nineteen minutes, and could anyone have done anything to prevent it?

Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, thought-provoking tale with a jaw-dropping finale.

Ages 15+

RRP: $17.99
QBD: $15.30

About the Author: Jodi Picoult

Jodi studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism - and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent - led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard to pursue a master's in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She has also been the recipient an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist, one of ten books written for adults that have special appeal for young adults; the Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine's Fearless Fiction' Award 2007; Waterstone's Author of the Year in the UK, and a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award. Most recently, she wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries.
She and Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire with a variety of animals including two Springer spaniels, two donkeys, two geese, three ducks, six chickens, and the occasional Holstein.

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