endgame

endgame By: Nancy Garden, 274 pp.

This YA book is sad, scary, and yet good. It is a lot like the real story of Columbine, however it is fiction.

Nancy Garden tells the story from a 14 year old boy's point of view. You really feel sorry for the "bad guy" in this story.

Gray Wilton is a troubled boy and no matter what he does, it seems he cannot get the attention of his father who just doesn't understand or sympathise for Gray.

Gray is picked on in his school by bullies; yet no one seems to bother noticing. Then his father tells him they are to move, and Gray thinks this is going to make things all better for him.

Well, not exactly... His home, school, and kids might be different, but the bullying just starts all over again; and bad turns to worse in this thrilling story of a kid who just can't figure out how to make things better, other than to bring his father's semi-automatic to school one day.