Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns

Reviewed by: Karen Sandlin Silverman - Scarborough High School / Scarborough Middle School, Scarborough, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 13, 2016

Review

Essays by Marc Aronson, Will Weaver, and Chris Crutcher about our culture of guns set the stage for this collection of thought-provoking short stories. Topics range from hunting to war to equipping classroom teachers with guns. The book features stories by the late Walter Dean Myers, Tim Wynne-Jones, Gregory Galloway, Ron Koertge, Alex Flinn, Chris Lynch, Eric Shanower, Francesca Lia Block, Jenny Hubbard, Elizabeth Wein, Edward Averett, Peter Johnson, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Overall Book Score: very good