David may not be able to end bullying, but by standing up, he might just make a difference. By the time he finally works up the courage to say 's too late.ĭavid tries to put what he knows behind him - to forget and move on - but that's hard to do as senior year starts and he watches his old friend, Valerie, struggle in a deep, dark place of guilt and confusion. Jennifer Brown is the author of acclaimed young adult novels, Hate List, Bitter End, Perfect Escape, Thousand Words, Torn Away, and the Shade Me series. So when David starts to suspect that Nick and his friend Jeremy are planning a revenge plot against their tormentors, he wrestles with whether or not to tell someone. Hate List Series 1 primary work 2 total works Hate List by Jennifer Brown 4.00 61,437 Ratings 5,662 Reviews published 2009 12 editions Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick Want to Read Rate it: Say Something: A Hate List Novella by Jennifer Brown 3. Every now and then I stumble upon a novel. Because you cant have one without the other. Valerie is kind to David and pulls him into their circle of outcast friends, where he finally feels like he (sort of) belongs. But what he didnt understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Thankfully, there's one girl David feels at ease with - Valerie, the girl who's been dating his neighbor and sometimes-friend, Nick. Shy and gentle, with a soft voice and 'a girl's name for a last name,' he is a prime target. Now, she explores an evocative new narrative while digging deeper into the themes first touched upon in her debut novel.ĭavid Judy knows what it's like to be bullied. I don't read YA novels because I'm an A and no longer Y but I read this one because life is pretty random, just like school shootings. Okay, you do get the pre-math and the math itself, a little bit, but 90 is about the aftermath. In Hate List, Jennifer Brown delivered a powerful story about grief, friendship, and forgiveness in the aftermath of a school shooting. Hate List is a YA novel about the aftermath of a school shooting.

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