Bibliography

Four sources to use for my research paper:

Coleman, Doriane Lambelet. Fixing Columbine: the Challenge to American Lliberalism. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Print.

Though this book is dense with information and big words, it is also full of helpful information. Once you get passed the opinions of the author, the pages give way to facts about kids and their negative tendencies. This non-fiction books acts as a reference work for the Columbine Shootings. The facts and the outcomes can be found here if you scan with a fine tooth comb.

Cornell, Dewey G.. School Violence: Fears Versus Facts. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006. Print.

This hardcover shows readers strictly what is wrong with our school systems. It goes into detail about the programs implemented to help stop violence in kids, while also telling us which ones work and which ones don’t. The book provides insight on where our money is going and where it should be going to help keep our kids alive and safe. This encyclopedia about violence will help me describe the events of Columbine. I will be able to look at the facts from other books and analyze them using this book. It’s always better to know the reason behind something before you judge it.

Strasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun . New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000. Print.

This book is a compilation of many people’s different sides of one common story. In recounting of Middletown’s middle school shooting, the author takes account of the different voices that were involved. This in depth look at how others were effected by school shootings will help me write my own account of the Columbine event. The emotion conveyed by these witnesses is heart wrenching but inspiring.

Webber, Julie A.. Failure to Hold: the Politics of School Violence. Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield, 2003. Print.

Failure to Hold provides readers with information on schools in general, not just columbine, and how violence is spreading and “poisoning the water” all over the US. This book goes into detail about other schools that endured similar horrors to that of Columbine; Students that loose control and take themselves and others down with a gun in their hand. This work will help me compare Columbine to other similar instances. By giving me comparisons, I can better understand the situation I will be writing about.