The Hate List

This story is about a young girl named Valerie and her boyfriend Nick who goes to high school together and has to deal with many controversies and issues with their peers and other students. They both feel like outcasts by many of the social groups and other students in the school dealing with being bullied, made fun of and judged because of their appearances etc. Valerie and Nick are very close and share many personal stories, likes and dislikes and even stories about how cruel and rude some of the other students and classmates are to them. Nick comes to Valerie with a very odd conversation over the phone and she answers him unaware of what the consequence would be behind it. They come up with this thing called a Hate List and put all of their bullies, enemies and even people they just didnt like in the order from the worst to the least liked. But Nick decides to  act upon it and takes out Valerie's # 1 enemy first and follows the list from the students he had it in for, the teacher he most hated and even students he didnt have problems with. Valerie tries to stop him not knowing Nick was going to act on the Hate List they created together and falls in the line of fire trying to protect another student from being killed. When nick turns the gun and kills himself, leaving Valerie with the guilt of feeling it was her fault and the critizism of other students that felt she knew about the list and what had just taken place. Now she has to find a way to cope and deal with all the drama but yet figure out how to explain what happened and claim her innocence to be able to move on with her life. I would recommend this book to any one becausee this type of situation is a reality and has happned in many cases and we need to be more aware of the problems our children, students and peers are having with being bullied at school, home, public workplaces and in the general public. I would  not have changed any element in this book story being that it was well written and spoke true significance that we need to be more aware of whats going on in society today.

                                                    The Hate List - Poem by Nisha

                                             If you never read a story before like this
                                        Open your eyes to this thing called The Hate List
                                             It can start at home or even at school
                                        Students being meand and bullies being cruel
                                Open your ears and pay attention to what you see or hear
                                      Listen to the ones that cry out in anger or even fear
                                          Stomp out the bullies and very mean peers
                              And come together and make this so called Hate List disappear.