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McDowell, Beck

This Is Not a Drill

220 pp. | Penguin/Paulsen | October, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-25794-0 $17.99
(4) YA While volunteering in a first-grade classroom, exes Emery and Jake find themselves responsible for the kids' lives when a student's disgruntled father with PTSD takes the class hostage. The two teens must overcome their personal gripes and come together to save the children and each other. The middle drags, but this headline-driven story told in alternating perspectives is suspenseful and poignant.
Reviewer: Randy Ribay

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