Skydiving. Ducks. Unexpected love. Falling down stairs. Doorknobs. Compassion. Duct tape. What do all these random things have in common? Nothing--duh, that's what makes them random. But they all do come from the random and yet somehow oh-so-thought-provoking mind of Justin Lookadoo. And they somehow add up to a mind-altering and life-re...more

Rachel Scott and her killer Eric Harris both talked about starting a “chain reaction.” Eric used violence to kill and destroy at Columbine High School. But Rachel chose another path. In a personal creed she wrote one month before her death in the Columbine tragedy, she explained her conviction that if one person goes out of his or her way to sh...more

On the morning of April 20, 1999 Cassie Bernall, a 17-year-old junior at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, was a typical teenager having a typical day. What nobody knew was that by the end of the day, two of her classmates would storm the school, guns blazing, and kill as many people as they could. Confronted by her killers, Cassie had...more

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, i...more