After by Francine Prose;After Prose (9780060080815)
Francine Prose;After Prose
Release Date: 01 April 2003 Format: Hardcover Pages: 336 Category: School & Education Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780060080815 ISBN-10: 0060080817
The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away.
" No one knows why. "
If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day.
" School feels like a prison. "
It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing.
" There's no way to stop it. "
Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.