After two decades of adult hand-wringing, the MFOL kids are mapping a way out. This spell-binding book is a testament to change and a perceptive examination of a pivotal moment in American culture. As victims refusing victimhood, they continue to devise clever new tactics to stir their generation to action while building a powerhouse network to match the NRA’s. Yet, with the idealism of youth they are mostly bubbling with fresh ideas. We see them cope with shattered friendships and PTSD, along with the normal day-to-day struggles of school, including AP exams and college acceptances. The Parkland students are genuinely candid about their experiences. Rattled but undeterred, they pressed on in gun country even as adversaries armed with assault weapons tailed them across Texas and Utah trying to scare them off. They hit the highway to organize the young activist groups mushrooming across America in their image. With unrivaled access to their friends and families, meetings and homes, he pulls back the curtain to reveal intimate portraits of the quirky, playful organizers that have taken the nation by storm.Ĭullen brings us onto the bus for the Road to Change tour showing us how these kids seized an opportunity. A month later, it was the fourth largest protest in American history.ĭave Cullen, who has been reporting on the epidemic of school shootings for two decades, takes us along on the students’ nine-month odyssey to the midterms and beyond. Four days after escaping Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two dozen extraordinary kids announced the audacious March for Our Lives.

Cameron Kasky immediately recruited a colorful band of theatre kids and rising activists and brought them together in his living room to map out a movement.

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement.Įmma Gonzalez called BS.

Parkland by Dave Cullen