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GLIMMER OF HOPE by The March for Our Lives Founders

GLIMMER OF HOPE

How Tragedy Sparked a Movement

by The March for Our Lives Founders

Pub Date: Oct. 16th, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-984836-09-0
Publisher: Razorbill/Penguin

Feb. 14, 2018, will go down as one of the most horrific days in U.S. history.

The murder of 17 students and teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in a mass shooting by a former classmate sparked the March for Our Lives movement and nonprofit organization. As the survivors decided that #NeverAgain would they sit by while mass shootings happened in their country, they got to work controlling the narrative rather than allowing the story to be forgotten in the next news cycle. This volume, written by the student founders of March for Our Lives, includes poetry, personal essays, conversations, and excerpts from speeches that trace events from the immediate aftermath of the tragedy to the present day. Paragraphs at the beginning of each section introduce contributors and provide context. Ample color photographs illustrate the young people’s nationwide reach. The message of political activism is clearly repeated throughout the book, which ends on a note of hope with a list of 10 policy reforms, including funding research into gun violence as a public health matter and legislation around gun sales, trafficking, and technology. While the quality of the writing is variable, teen readers will recognize and respond to the sincere passion of the sentiments expressed.

Helpful for those seeking background about the movement directly from those involved and inspiring to those who wish to join their cause.

(Nonfiction. 14-18)