Author(s): Jodi Picoult

Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Peter has always been the target of bullies. And it gets worse when his former best friend Josie attaches herself to the cool kids. Josie knows that if she wants to stay popular, she can't stick up for Peter anymore; she even has to push him away. When Peter takes revenge with a shooting rampage at his school, the whole community is devastated, and desperate for justice. Josie is plagued by guilt, and trauma has erased her memory, but is she hiding anything else? Jordon McAfee is determined to defend Peter. But secrets and lies and fragile emotions cloud the truth. What really happened in those nineteen minutes? And could anyone have done anything to prevent it? As Peter Houghton knows, in nineteen minutes you can bring the world to a screeching halt.