Parkland Speaks - by Sarah Lerner (Paperback)

About the Book

Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the lives of these teens and a poignant representation of grief, healing, a rally cry for change, and hope for a safe future.

Book Synopsis

Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the events of February 14, and a poignant representation of grief, healing, and hope.

The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School share their emotional journeys that began on February 14, 2018, and continue today. This revealing and unfiltered look at teens living in the wake of tragedy is a poignant representation of grief, anger, determination, healing, and hope.

The intimate collection includes poetry, eyewitness accounts, letters, speeches, journal entries, drawings, and photographs from the events of February 14 and its aftermath. Full of heartbreaking loss, a rally cry for change, and hope for a safe future, these artistic pieces will inspire readers to reflect on their own lives and the importance of valuing and protecting the ones you love.

Review Quotes

"A valuable primary source document that will be of interest to students and activists today and historians tomorrow." --Kirkus

"Poignant and hard-hitting." --PW

"This is an intense, hard, and very direct window into the experience of surviving a mass shooting." --SLJ

"This collection of experiences, memories, and flashbacks . . . offers teens a place to process the national tragedy, and the world a window into how the school itself is coping and healing." --Booklist

About the Author

SARAH LERNER is an English teacher, Journalism teacher, and yearbook adviser at MSD in Parkland, Florida. She began teaching in 2002 and was named the Sun-Sentinel High School Journalism Teacher of the Year in 2014. Sarah lives in Florida with her husband and two children.