It's a great book with suspense in every page! However it is not for kids.

I am waiting for Walter Dean Myers to wring a play or screenplay. I am an actor and a playwright and when I read "Shooter" just like "Monster" he crafts dialogue so effectively that it carries the story even without the narrative. Each character has a specific and active voice. Even the psychologists and reporters who merely record or probe information. But it's the diary of the Shooter at the end where you will be blown away by how Myers is able to get inside the mind of a disturbed, misunderstood and lonely teenager. This book is so incredible that whenever I lend it to one of my students, I don't get it back.

This book Shooter is about Carmeron Porter. Carmeron is a seventeen year old African American. He goes to school at Madison High School in Harrison County. In the book Carmeron is being interviewed. He gets interviewed five times with five different people. The reason he is being interviewed is because his friend Len killed himself in school. The statement fact is: a seventeen-year-old White male found dead in the aftermath of a shooting incident at Madison High School in Harrison County. The conclusion: Death by self- inflicted wound.
I liked this book because it was interesting to read about a real case and the real interviews. I liked that it also read fast. I disliked it because just reading it was kind of boring. The book didn't have much action in it.
I would recommend this book to people who like books that read fast. I would also recommend this book to to people who like to read a book and have it pull you in as you read it.

Always getting made fun of at school, never having any friends and noone ever listening to you. Cameron 17 and Leon 18 were both struggling through their high school and family lives. Cameron's parents were both very wealthy and never had really paid attention to him. Leon who's life was the total opposite had a family that was poor and was also never around. Leon and Cameron both reffered themselves to the darkside, because they both wore black clothes and chains. They both never got along with anybody, they just stayed in their own lives. Since they never had any real frends they became dinkers and smokers. They did alot of bad things, but this was the fault of bad judgement from their peers and adult staff at their school. Cameron and Leon were both made fun of each day by people who thought they were bigger then them. Cameron had gone to an adult, but that didn't do anything, that only made things worse.While Cameron was trying to make things better for his friend and himself, Leon had another idea. Actually more of a prank that he was going to do at school. Leon told Cameron that he wanted to go and write in the main hall "Stop the violence", in red, but not with paint but with his own Blood.Cameron showed up the day Leon wanted to do the prank. Leon then pulled out a gun and all shot lose. That day ended with anger and regretment.

The book I'm reviewing is Shooter written by Walter Dean Myers. This fictional story is about the after effects of a high student's death. The students name is Len. And the story is given in a police report type dialogue. There isn't really a narrator in the story, nobody really tells the story. The story is told by conversations that we held between the characters, police reports, newspaper clippings, and character's journal. The story mostly follows two characters that were closet to Len, Cameron Porter and Carla Evans. Cameron was Len's closet friend and was one of the only people that really understood Len's mysterious ways, and Carla who was Len's female interest. There weren't only his closet friends but also were the ones who have the something to do with the incident involving Len. What I liked about this book was that they gave the story in a different way. They didn't really have anybody tell the story which kept the story interesting. Also they showed the conversations between the main characters word for word which gave you a feel of what the characters were like. What I didn't like about the book is that in the beginning the book didn't really tell you exactly what happened to Len that caused his death which left you a little confused while reading. I recommend this book to everybody; this is a really good and interesting book. You don't really see that many books told the way this story is. So I believe that the shooter a must read for all readers because it will broaden your mind with a different type of story.