Children Under Fire An American Crisis

John Woodrow Cox, Graham Halstead

eAudio - 2021

One of The New York Times' 16 New Books to Watch for in MarchOne of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the YearOne of Newsweek's Most Highly Anticipated Books of The YearOne of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books the YearBased on the acclaimed series—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forwardIn 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection—both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava's best friend had been k...illed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun's father had been shot to death outside of the boy's... more