Silent Alarm by Jennifer Banash
This book was so good. It kept me captive from beginning to end. So many emotions-as a teacher, as a parent.
Alys is a violinist and a junior in high school. Her brother Luke is a senior, and was accepted to MIT. One day, Alys is in the library, and a gunman starts shooting. She comes face to face with the gunman, who spares her life. It is her brother. He took out fifteen of their classmates and staff, and then killed himself in the science lab. No one knows why.
Alys, through no fault of her own, becomes a pariah. Everyone treats her differently, almost as if she is the one who committed this horrible atrocity. Alys, also has a really hard time because she doesn't understand why Luke would have done this thing, and because she just loves her brother. She can't seem to let him go, and sees him everywhere. She gives up what she loves most, and loses nearly everyone in her life.
This book pulls at all your emotions. I highly recommend it.
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