That's Not What Happened

About this book

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith.

But it's not true.

I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the record straight...but I'm not the only survivor with a story to tell about what did--and didn't--happen that day.

Except Sarah's martyrdom is important to a lot of people, people who don't take kindly to what I'm trying to do. And the more I learn, the less certain I am about what's right. I don't know what will be worse: the guilt of staying silent or the consequences of speaking up...

Subjects

• bullying
• bullying, fiction
• children's fiction
• contemporary
• fiction
• letters, fiction
• lgbt
• lgbtq+
• massacre survivors
• mental health
• mystery
• realistic fiction
• rural schools
• schools, fiction
• school shootings
• secrecy
• teen
• thriller
• truthfulness and falsehood
• truthfulness and falsehood, fiction
• young adult
• young adult fiction