02246cam a2200325 4500 759229850 TxAuBib 20170605120000.0 170303s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017004125 9780804177931 hbk. $28.00 0804177937 hbk. $28.00 (OCoLC)974612217 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO BDX OCLCQ OCLCO HQD OCLCO VTL OEL LIV OCLCO JQW JAS TxGR TxAuBib King, Laurie R, author. Lockdown [Book] : a novel of suspense / Laurie R. King. First edition. New York : Bantam, [2017] 386 pages ; 25 cm. Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: A day given to innocent hopes and youthful dreams. A day no one in attendance will ever forget. A year ago, Principal Linda McDonald arrived at Guadalupe determined to overturn the school's reputation for truancy, gang violence, and neglect. One of her initiatives is Career Day bringing together children, teachers, and community presenters in a celebration of the future. But there are some in attendance who reject McDonald's bright vision. principal with a secret. A husband with a murky past. A cop with too many questions. A kid under pressure to prove himself. A girl struggling to escape a mother's history. A young basketball player with an affection for guns.Even the school janitor has a story he dare not reveal.But no one at the gathering anticipates the shocking turn of events that will transform a day of possibilities into an explosive confrontation.Tense, poignant, and brilliantly paced, Laurie R. King's novel charts compelling characters on a collision coursea chain of interactions that locks together hidden lives, troubling secrets, and the bravest impulses of the human heart. 20170605. Middle schools Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. School principals Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Suspense fiction. RV8