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Available
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F Mil
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Publication
Dutton Juvenile (2006), Edition: First Edition, 256 pages
Description
While drinking alcohol and playing with a loaded gun at a party, a teenage boy accidentally shoots and kills another student and then tries to conceal her death.
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Like Walter Dean Myer’s Monster, On the Head of a Pin examines the effects of murder on those not directly involved with pulling the trigger. Andy, Victor, and Joshua are at a party in a hunting cabin. They have been drinking. Andy doesn’t mean to kill Helen. It was an accident. Joshua wants to
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bring in the police, but Andy is not going to allow Joshua to ruin his life over an accident, especially when Helen’s weirdo boyfriend, Michael, is the perfect victim. This story is framed between Joshua’s devout Catholic perspective and Michael’s Taoist outlook. While Michael and Joshua explore their own responsibility, readers see a more complete picture of responsibility—one that includes religion, peer pressure, school personnel, friends and family, and the effect that adults can have on teens. Recommended for high school readers. Show Less
Pages
256