After the First Death parent’s guide: what’s inside
High confidence
Sexual content
None · 0/5
LGBTQ+ themes
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Substance use
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What it offers
A note for parents
This is a serious, complex thriller about a bus hijacking with children as hostages, told from multiple perspectives including a terrorist's. While the violence is not gratuitously graphic, the psychological intensity, moral ambiguity, and themes of terrorism, death, and manipulation make it suitable primarily for mature teens. Cormier's literary approach rewards thoughtful readers but the subject matter is inherently heavy.
Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.
Shelved under
Fathers and sons
Fiction
Terrorism
American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
