Themes - Guns

Guns

Bang, Bang, You're Dead, by Louise Fitzhugh and Sandra Scoppettone.
Camouflage Gloria Miklowitz' Pictures by Louise Fitzhugh. (New York, Harper & Row, 1969)
Drummer Hoff
Face to Face by Bauer the relationship between gun ownership and use (as well as extreme sports) and "manhood" is explored interestingly through the eyes of a 13 (?) year old Minnesota farm boy.
The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole. A powerful young adult novel that involves death by shooting
Give a Boy a Gun by Strasser
Just One Flick of a Finger by Mary Beth Lorbiecki
Making Up Megaboy by Virginia Walter features Robbie Jones who, on his 13th birthday, uses his father's gun to shoot a Korean liquor-store owner.
John Gilstrap's Nathan's Run is another gun-loaded book, an exciting story of an escaped juvenile on the run.
Paula Fox's One-Eyed Cat
SE Hinton's The Outsiders
Gary Paulsen's The Rifle
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Marty Preston enjoys taking his .22 up the far hill to work on his aim, at least that's what he tells his mother as an excuse for leaving home to sneak food to feed the abused dog, Shiloh.
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth Speare.
Smokey Night
Gary Paulsen's Soldier's Heart though it's Civil War era.
Stones in Water Donna Jo Napoli Set in WWII and begins with German soldiers with guns taking Italian boys captive inside a movie house in Venice.
Twelve Shots
Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice.
What Jamie Saw
Wilson Rawl's "Where the Red Fern Grows." Though set in a time that may seem distant to many of us in urban settings, hunting and guns are still a significant part of American culture.

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