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Summary: A 'Must' Read
Review: 'Shooter in the Sky: The Inner World of Children Who Kill' was a fascinating and thought provoking book. The author wrote with a great deal of expertise and yet, spoke and explained things in terms that anyone could understand. I couldn't put the book down! I recommend that everyone read this book. It is about a phenomenon that touches us all.
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Summary: A 'Must' Read
Review: 'Shooter in the Sky: The Inner World of Children Who Kill' was a fascinating and thought provoking book. The author wrote with a great deal of expertise and yet, spoke and explained things in terms that anyone could understand. I couldn't put the book down! I recommend that everyone read this book. It is about a phenomenon that touches us all.
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Summary: READ IT - AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND, AND ACT!
Review: Again, we have been hit. All of us. Another school, this time San Diego. And another boy who was mocked and abused and taunted until he even told people what he was going to do. All the tenets we need to have to understand the inner world of THIS boy are in Shooter. The book is a handbook on a sad and lonely psyche in a boy unafraid of finally lashing out. If school boards won't get this in the schools for discussion, let the parents chip in and get it in in truck loads! I wonder where the author is tonight - and if she wishes we would listen? Bless the children as we sit idly by when there is this first, pioneering, and excellent book on WHY!
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Summary: Captures the Complex Psychology of a Child Criminal
Review: As a criminal lawyer I was intrigued to read Shooter on a cross-country flight. As the author would know, most of these kids are first-time offenders, going straight to murder. Dr. Woodhouse captures the torment and confusion that set in when they realise what they have done. Most of them have never seen the inside of a police station, let alone a prison, let alone a maximum security prison. Among the other extremely important issues that this book deals with in such a fine, readable story, is the mess we have made of dealing with our youthful offenders. The boy in this book is not unusual. He should not have been where he was, but this is what we are doing with 13 to 15 year olds who snap. I wish everyone involved with family court, youth offenders, and the related legislation and sentencing would read this pioneering book. The author is a hard-nosed criminologist taking us through this story and process with the artistry and care of a poet. Congratulations to the author, but also to the publisher for being smart, brave and sufficiently prescient to publish this fundamentally informative book. WE NEED MORE OF THE SAME!!
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Summary: An honest and invaluable message
Review: Dr. Woodhouse has entered the mind and soul of Harold Connolly, allowing the first honest glimpse of child violence and its consequences.Both painful and moving, this book should be read by every adolescent, parent and educator to open the lines of communication. Dr. Woodhouse has given us an invaluable tool. Incredible.
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Summary: psychological detail, fine art, and first, useful tool
Review: I am close to retiring as a scondary school principal and I was as impressed when I read this fine book the second time as I was the first time through. As a once English teacher, I presume to say that this author is an important writer, and an invaluable social critic as well. The detail she provided of this boy's psyche are invaluable to us and, when we think about it, we should have inferred some aspects of "his" psychological pain from various behaviors. But the author has handed us the boy's pain and his wishes on a silver platter. The questions she has included are perfectly pertinent and, I might add indicative of her thoughtfulness. The questions have been clearly thought out so as to be useful, not inciting. I will be recommending that this book become part of a social studies curriculum. However, were I younger, and my career in mid gear, I would insist on it. What is the saying? "God, save the children"? This exzcellent book could help us to save at least a few. Mrs. H. Mason
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Summary: Shooter gives voice to an important social issue!
Review: I have seen this very gifted author speak and I am not surprised that she was able to climb into the skin of another human being and capture, with great understanding, the complexity of his feelings. Shooter is a very profound book, capturing the heart and mind of the reader - leaving one to ponder human unkindness in its many forms and challenging each one of us to "really" listen and take action. Shooter gives voice to an important social issue and illuminates our way in addressing it. Exceptionally well written. A must read for all ages!!
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Summary: Broke my Heart, Opened My Mind!
Review: I was virtually spell-bound for hours after reading SHOOTER. I fell in love with the main character and wanted to bring him home. My God, this is what happens to children who kill, and the story also shows, tells and massages us into learning how they can end up doing so when they are not so-called "bad seeds". The author has given me and my children a personal gift. As a single mother, I thank her as a friend would a friend. Everyone, especially our children, should have access to a Dr. Lauren Woodhouse and her remarkable ability to understand us, and to explain us to ourselves. Thank you to the heart and soul named "Lauren".
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Summary: WISH I COULD TALK TO THE WRITER
Review: I'm a kid, but I'm 17 and I know exactly what Harold felt. Most of my friends either still feel or have felt the same way. How come Dr. Woodhouse knew this? The book made me cry so I won't put my name here but my counsellor said that was good and wants to read Shooter in The Skie with me, in parts. But I want to save it because there are certain pages I have saved so that I can read them when I feel alone. I thought I was crazy. I think a lot of kids do. I wish we had this book as an assignment in, may be, grade 9 and we could write our answers. I gace it to my sister and my mom read it. I just wonder if the writer, who seems really smart and honest, had to make an okay ending or parents and teachers would freak! I think Harold would have gone, but gone peacefully. Maybe not. Thanks for giving this to me, Mrs. Woodhouse. I wish I could talk to you. R.T. (student)
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Summary: Shooter In the Sky
Review: In Shooter In the Sky Dr. Lauren Woodhouse has presented the urgent social message of child violence with truth and understanding, offering us a working blueprint for comprehension, dialogue and prevention. With incredible compassion and empathy Dr. Woodhouse shows us a child's world before and after violence. Her ability to get inside this child, to become him for the reader is both astounding and a profound gift. This is a revolutionary book. Dr. Woodhouse, thank you.
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