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In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood,

made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying

national precedent.

She received a rifle for Christmas, and a month later set her sights and open fire on

the elementary school across the street.

The event is forever glorified by the song, I Don't Like Mondays, by the Boomtown Rats,

and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings.

Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer.

I don't like Mondays the true story of America's first modern school shooting sifts through

the mythology that is sprung up around this faithful day, presenting the raw and riveting

facts for the first time.

This book lays bare the seemingly average teenage girl's brutal motives and subsequent arrest.

Endly Haunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators,

and lost police dispatches.

His interviewed people who were on the scene, and local reporters who spoke with him, with

the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree.

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