Kent State

Really well done and incredibly well-researched. The end notes explaining his research and choices were so additive. I knew some of this story but not all, so Backderf's research helped to fill in my knowledge gaps, making it easier to draw continued modern parallels to how this massacre happened. I appreciated that he spent a lot of time giving voice to Bill, Sandy, Allison, & Jeff and also included information about the other students who were shot. As a warning, the scenes of the shooting are very realistically graphic. This would be good for upper highschool to adult and would pair well with Deborah Wiles' audiobook of her novel-in-verse, Kent State.