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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 ...

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...

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 tee...

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...

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 momen...