Red Heart Tattoo - Lurlene McDaniel

In the vein of This is Where It Ends , this exploration of grief and tragedy in the aftermath of a bomb explosion at a high school is sadly topical and powerfully heartrending.
 
At 7:45 a.m. a bomb goes off at Edison High.
 
Nine people die instantly. Fifteen are critically wounded. Twenty-two are injured. One is blinded.
 
In the aftermath of the violent tragedy, survive struggle to cope and heal as a result of something they may never understand.
 
Told in alternating points of view, Red Heart Tattoo deals with issues of violence, death, and trauma in the lives of five teens.