Run, Hide, Fight Back

Written by April Henry

Narrated by Amy McFadden

Six teens must band together to survive after a shooting breaks out in this high-stakes thriller by New York Times bestselling author April Henry.

When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, a diverse group of teens ends up trapped behind a store's security shutter. To her own surprise, seventeen-year-old Miranda finds the others looking to her as their leader. But she's hiding a big secret-and she's not the only one. The group has only three choices: Run, hide, or fight back. The wrong decision will have fatal consequences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Oct 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977376619

April Henry

April Henry is the New York Times bestselling author of many acclaimed mysteries for adults and young adults, including the YA novels Girl, Stolen; The Girl I Used to Be, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; The Night She Disappeared; and Body in the Woods and Blood Will Tell, Books One and Two in the Point Last Seen series. She lives in Oregon.

Reviews for Run, Hide, Fight Back

[beth.clarke · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

April Henry writes fast paced, suspenseful YA books. I love recommending her books to my students and I always enjoy spending a day pulled into one of her novels. This one involves a mass shooting at a mall. A terrifying premise.

[kmartin802_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Six random teens are caught near the Fairgate Mall's Food Court when the shooting starts. They need to work together when domestic terrorists begin killing people. Miranda Nash was in the Mall shoplifting to support her Oxy habit. Javier Ramirez was working cleaning the tables. He's an undocumented alien. Amina Abdi was working at Culpepper's. She's Muslim, American by birth, and wears a hijab. Grace Busby is there with her mother who is among the first to be shot. Grace and her mother were fleeing to Mexico for medical treatment for Grace's lymphoma. Parker Gray was there hanging out on a day off school and loosely supervising his 7-year-old sister. Cole Bond is also there and keeps thinking that the whole thing is a like a video game that couldn't be real. While Miranda, Grace, Javier, and Cole take shelter in the storage room of Culpepper's, Parker is too busy looking for his little sister Moxie and is rounded up by the terrorists. Interspersed with accounts from the teens are 911 calls and other information about what is happening outside the Mall including a truck hijacking of a truck carrying gold and silver on its way to jewelers. The story was very intense. The narrator did a great job keeping the tension high as the kids need to decide if they will run, hide, or fight back. I liked that we got to know the characters and get some idea of their motives and states of mind as they dealt with this terrible occurrence. I did a combination read/listen with this one. I listened to the first two-thirds of the story and then switched to reading so that I could find out what happened more quickly.

[heatherlinc · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

"Run, Hide, Fight Back" was a quick, intense read that had me hooked from page one. With short chapters, social media posts, reports, transcripts and drama galore, I found myself racing to the end. The book only spans three hours and the tension is palpable as the police try to bring down the shooters.I liked how Miranda and the other teens had the courage to fight back despite the danger they faced. However, they all needed more character development as they were rather flat and stereotypical.Considering that the novel is about a mass shooting in a shopping mall, it was very realistic and action packed, making it a gripping novel for teens.