Endgame by Nancy Garden

Have you ever been picked on? Misunderstood? Felt like you’d lost all control? Meet Gray. He’s a 14-year-old freshman whose family has just moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut. His parents have assured him that this year will be different, a chance to forget about all the bad stuff that happened at Parker Middle School. But as it turns out, for Gray nothing is going to change. He’s still gonna be the kid who gets picked on, pushed around, bullied, and beat up by the big tough jocks. But this time, the abuse has escalated and Gray can’t say anything about it because the adults seem to just brush it off as mild teasing and even if he did tell, the jocks just do more damage. Too make matters worse, Gray’s dad treats him as bad as the jocks do. Gray can only take so much and when the last straw snaps, he does the only thing he can think of to make the pain go away and six lives are drastically changed forever. Let Gray tell you the truth about what caused the extreme chain of events that altered his life.

**If you've ever wondered what would make someone feel like violence was the only answer and what could be going on in the mind of a school shooter, this powerful novel is the one for you.**