![]() ![]() ![]() Had she not discussed before how much she hated them? Maybe even egged him on a little? With Nick gone, she's really the only one left to face the blame. Once Valerie wakes up in the hospital to face the consequences, she soon realizes that she harbors some of the blame for the people who were killed or wounded. When he brings a gun to school and starts shooting people, Valerie puts herself in front of his next victim, Jessica Campbell, and is shot in the leg. Valerie and Nick have compiled a Hate List, a list of people and things they hate Valerie sees it as an inside joke between the two of them, but Nick is more serious. Interspersed through the novel are newspaper articles about the events. It is a first person narrative from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, whose boyfriend Nick Levil was the shooter. The novel deals with the aftermath of a school shooting. The novel is set after a shooting incident at an American high school and deals with themes of hatred, bullying, family tension, and suicide. Jennifer Brown, who wrote a newspaper humor column for four years, switched to a more serious side for her debut novel, Hate List. Hate List is a young adult novel written by Jennifer Brown and published in 2009 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ![]()
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