legislation after another series of deadly mass shootings of force the issue back to the top of its agenda. on wednesday, family and survivors from the racially motivated attack at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, as well as the robb elementary shooting in uvalde, texas, will participate in a hearing held by the committee on oversight and reform. among the speakers will be maya surrey oh, a robb elementary fourth grader who was trapped in one of the adjoining classrooms of the gunman attacked. she told cnn that she covered herself in her classmates blood and play dead for an hour until law enforcement finally brought an end to the attack. now, she will tell her story to the entire country. think about this for just a second, think about the trauma that has been inflicted on school children because of our inaction. think about how much we ve been active asking of young people across this country as the united states senate has continued to stall on passing any kind of legis
makes fun of me, but i no way i can make them stop. the culture perpetuates itself. it is worth saying that 19 minutes was written in 2007. that was one was published. it has been 15 years, and it has only become more relevant. and i really wish it wasn t. more rollover of a very regular basis. let s go rock to bullying. it was a motivation for you to write this book. tell me why. well, you know, i remember very distinctly when my oldest son was five years old, i remember going to his school and just watching this kid pull out the chair of another little girl, but before snack time, just to let her lunch tray would fall all over herself. this was a quiet little girl who was very shy. it s the kid to get to get a laugh and to tease this poor girl he was kind of on the fringes of the class. and they thought, wow, it starts so early. when i was an eighth grade 1 million years ago, i had my hand in a locker reaching in for a book, and the bully came in a slams the locker and my
bullying, the taunts, the complicated family dynamics that help to explain the why. 19 minutes has been challenged numerous times. a year after its publication in 2008. a parent petitioned for its elimination from the library in illinois, citing the sexual references, suicide, bullying and violence among other things. the national coalition against censorship wrote a letter against spending the book. the letter ran in part, saying quote, in 19 minutes the author jody pico uses the form of a novel to address the serious issue of bullying, and questions about sexual relationships that affect teens across the country. the authors research on school violence in prevention which make the book a strong resource for teens,, educators and parents alike. and to quote. most of the books we cover on the velshi banned book club are crucial for many reasons. but primarily because they force their returns to face issues directly. for a certain readership, books like deer martin or weisberg,
why they form, them when they form them, and if they should be opening up their minds and changing the points of view. and what a great way. if this is how people are going to be informed about contemporary issues, want to do it through a jody peco book? thank you for being with us, thank you for writing this book so long ago that continues to be relevant today. jody pico is the author of 19 minutes, and many other novels. and we appreciate your time today. thank you for being with us. we are going to continue this conversation next week, by the way, with todd straw sir, author of the young adult novel give a boil gun. it is a painful and poignant look at a school shooting is told by documents emails and interviews from those involved in those affected. stay right where you are because the sunday show with jonathan kaye part begins right now. president biden had a big week, going everywhere to tackle everything from gun violence to inflation. we ll break it down with house
away from in the news business. we tend to focus on the victims and the circumstances more than the shooter. but why do you feel that it is important to tell people about the why of how peter became a school shooter? well, the reason i wrote this book is because adolescence is a timeout for the it. not standing out. it s there are a lot of kids who stuck out. that has not changed since when i was a kid. it s my children or younger. it takes a village to raise a child but it also takes a village to fail a trial. i think it is important to look as, true peter, all the ways that just one moment, one interaction with somebody, could change the course of his life, so he did not feel the need to pick up a gun and start shooting. that the book is grounded in bullying and how that affects and debilitates a kid. of course, there is bowling unconscious all over the world. the difference between america