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Brief Summary Of Hate List By Jennifer Brown

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In the novel Hate List, by Jennifer Brown, was about a sixteen year old girl named Valerie. She lived with her mom, dad, and younger brother Frankie. Valerie also had a boyfriend named Nick, and they had typical high school problems. Nick was bullied because of how poor he was, and Valerie was also bullied because she dressed goth and was different than the other girls. The bullies called her, “Sister Death.” Out of anger Nick and Valerie therapeutically created a “Hate List” which was a list of names of people who made them angry, jealous, and scared. Little did Valerie know her boyfriend would open fire at school targeting the names on that list. It started when Christy Bruter, one of the bullies, broke Valerie’s MP3 player. Furious, she called Nick and told …show more content…

He continued to walk around the commons, dragged people out from under the tables, and killing people from the “List.” He left six dead and countless others wounded, Valerie included. Valerie risked her life and jumped in front of Jessica Cambell, and got shot in the leg by Nick. When Nick realized what he had done, he turned the gun on himself and killed himself. Valerie woke up in the hospital three days later confused as ever. She learned that she was a suspect of the shooting because she wrote that list. The detective thought that since she created the list, then she ordered Nick to go and kill of those people. Others considered her as a hero, she saved Jessica’s life. Valerie was cleared of the charges after spending two weeks in a psychiatric hospital. She promised herself she would never see Nick’s grave, or go to any funerals. Before she knew it, it was the first day of senior year. Everyone had mixed feelings about her; some even left the class because they couldn’t stand looking at her. Valerie was alone and ignored until Jessica Cambell (the girl who Valerie saved) asked if she wanted to come and sit by her and her

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