Nijkamp, Marleke.
THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS
New York : Sourcebooks Fire, 2016
IL YA
ISBN 149262246X

(2 booktalks)

Booktalk #1

This chilling novel takes place over 54 heart-stopping minutes.

 In a morbid blend of school shooting realities and Hunger Games fiction, students at an Alabama high school are locked into their assembly hall with an active shooter.

 Four students narrate their attempt to survive this terror in a way that will make sure you never take a day for granted again.

This eerie echo of today’s horrific realities is not for the faint of heart; the terror inspired by this story will hit close to home for many readers.  (Booktalk by Kristen Grabarek. http://www.coloradobluespruceaward.org/)

Booktalk #2

The whole novel takes place over the course of less than an hour when everything changes for the kids at Opportunity High School. It starts out as a boring assembly -- the same as every semester. The principal drones on and the kids are not paying much attention. Then when it is time to leave and get to class, they realize that this is no ordinary assembly. All the doors are locked and no one can get out. A prank? Or something worse? When Tyler appears on stage with a gun and starts shooting, things will never be the same again.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. 

School shootings -- Fiction. 

Schools -- Fiction.