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Jamie's Got A Gun

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By Gail Sidonie Šobat & Spyder Yardley-Jones | Published by Great Plains Teen Fiction

  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Suspense
  • Thriller
  • Fiction

A gritty tale of a young misfit

What happens when an angry young man–who comes from nothing and is headed nowhere–is misunderstood, bullied and abused?

What happens if he finds a gun and takes it to school?

This is the gritty story of the young misfit, Jamie Kidding. Told in journal form, partly through the protagonist’s voice, partly through his graphic images (created by celebrated Alberta artist, Spyder Yardley-Jones), Jamie’s Got a Gun is a gripping and realistic narrative for teens.

An aspiring artist and cartoonist, Jamie initially resorts to his notebook to record, in images and words, the reality of his complicated life with his working class mother, his deadbeat stepfather and the bullies he faces daily at his high school in a tough neighbourhood. Gradually, the weapon takes over Jamie’s life and his imagination, tantalizing him with deadly solutions to his personal and social troubles.

Seduced by a sense of power, one fateful day he takes the gun to his high school. Jamie Kidding careens down a self-destructive path until the final climactic moments of the novel–depicted graphically–when he must make a choice between life and death.

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Awards & interviews
Silver Moonbeam Award Winner

Canadian Authors’ Association Fred Kerner Award Finalist

Forward Reviews’ Top Ten Best Graphic Novels of 2014

Selected for Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2014 by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre

Reviews

"This powerful, poignant, and ultimately hopeful book should not be missed" - Foreword Reviews

"[Gail Sidonie Sobat's] got the pulse of young people and knows how they think and feel … By collaborating with Spyder Yardley-Jones [she's] added that graphic element that adds a thousand words" - Helen Kubiw, CanLit for Little Canadians

"Jamie’s Got a Gun is intriguing and effective in its use of text and illustration and will appeal to teen readers who are looking for gritty and uncompromising fiction." - Rob Bittner, CM Review

“Jamie’s Got a Gun is a YA novel about potential….the potential we have to find love in unlikely places, to make a difference in the lives of those around us, and the potential to take action and make a change in our own lives, be it positive or negative….But this book is not just for teens or comic-lovers. It is for anyone who would come across Jamie’s diary and care to know his story … [The book] makes the reader feel like they are picking up Jamie’s journal, getting a glimpse into his life, and understanding what could lead a teen to see violence as an answer to their problems. Jamie’s problems are very real issues facing young people, and teens and children do need help from forces outside their lives, hopefully from somewhere other than a gun.” - Will J Fawley, The Winnipeg Review 

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