The Student
takes readers inside the halls and classrooms of Abigail Adams Middle School on what turns out to be a terrifying and inexorable journey. As we intimately experience the struggles of each of The Student's potential victims and of The Student himself, we feel teacher Sharon Bonavina's frustrations as she tries desperately, but in vain, to reach The Student-until we end up cowering behind the way-too-thin wooden doors of Sharon's classroom, watching the clock, wondering if help will arrive in time. Tick... Tick... Tick...
Between January 2023 and November 26, 2023, there were 77 school shootings, and while children are shooting their teachers and other children, the people who should do something do nothing or don't know what to do.