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Newtown: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak
4.0
dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

 This book covers the Sandy Hook school shooting, perpetrated by Adam Lanza. Twenty six people lost their lives in this tragedy. Lysiak does a good job of providing information about each victim. It really makes you feel like you knew them a little bit. It is so terrible think about one of my kids going to school and not coming home, or experiencing this and being traumatized for the rest of their lives. You always imagine that school is a safe place to send your kids, but schools are vulnerable to natural disasters and horrific killings such as this. This event, and others like it, have really made me more conscious of telling my kids how much I love them every single morning before they get out of the car. I didn't really know much about Lanza or this event other than that it happened, so I learned quite a lot from this book.