She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom Of Cassie Bernall by Misty Bernall
Type: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
My rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
Why I chose it: The 10th anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine was on April 20, 2009. The topic of school shootings is one that intrigues me. I wonder what happens to kids that can make them want to kill other kids.
What I liked about it: This was the story of one of the girls who died that day. Unbelievably, years earlier, Cassie Bernall, wrote notes back and forth to a friend about killing her own parents. In a recently released book about Columbine, one of the reporters who researched the Columbine story for the past 10 years discovered that story behind the name of this book (that Cassie was murdered because she was asked by her killer if she believed in God and was shot in the head when she said "yes") did not actually happen, but was one of the myths that sprung up after the shootings. Irregardless, this is a sad story about a senseless killing.
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