Nineteen Minutes/ Jodi Picoult/ 455 pages

This is the story of a high school shooting in NH that left 10 kids dead and many others wounded.  Picoult gives you a lot of depressing things to think about in this book.   Bullying and it's affects is a big topic of discussion.  Was the shooter driven to his crime because of post traumatic stress disorder from nearly 12 years of bullying by his fellow students?  Is bullying really this bad in our schools?  Was I just niave to it when I was growing up?  Very depressing, but very thought provoking.  Overall, I liked that it made me think, but it's so much harder to read these books when you have your own kid getting ready to go to school in the fall...