Thirteen Reasons Why
Razorbill - Razorbill
Release date: 2007-10-18
Hardcover
Author: Jay Asher
Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Social Issues - Suicide, Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Social Issues - Death & Dying, Social Issues - Friendship, Fiction, High schools, Schools, Suicide
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Date undefined... and you'll begin the story that may very well change your outlook on everything. When Clay Jenson comes home to find a box full of cassette tapes on his doorstep,with no return address, he can't help but be anything but eager to find out what's on them... that is until he presses play. Hannah Baker is dead but that doesn't mean she's left us behind entirely because that's exactly who's on the tapes~speaking to him.
This story takes readers on an all night rollercoaster ride of pent up emotions. Hannah may have killed herself, but was she really the cause? Could you have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to the too early departure of someone you barely knew? That is the lurking question throughout this thought-provoking debut novel by Jay Asher. Readers will identify with both Hannah's yearning to belong candidly disguised by her cynical humor and Clay's ever present curiousity that won't allow him to stop listening to the dead girl speaking to him.
By the time that you close this book you will think twice about everything you say, and the way it will inadvertently effect someone else. From starting a rumor, to betraying a friend, this book covers things that are so prevalent amongst today's youths. Though knowing the end of this sad story before you even begin to read, with Hannah's voice hauntingly speaking within the pages,"Thirteen Reasons Why" makes you hope, believe, and pray, that somehow someone,ANYONE, will be able to save her. This book is definately one for anybody who has ever considered themselves unimportant, because it proves that we have the ability to ultimately influence the actions of others around us.
Thirteen Reasons Why
Date undefinedI thought the idea for this book was really cool and it was written well (a very easy read). In my opinion the story was horrible and I kept waiting for something really bad to happen to this girl. I hated the main character (the girl who killed herself) she was whiny and blamed others for everything... She complained about others making her life hell when she didn't even try very hard and in the end tried to ruin the life of others. I was pretty much screaming at the main charter the whole time and felt it was a slap in the face to people who have real problems and deal with things much more serious.
Thirteen Reasons Why
Date undefinedHave you ever found an unexpected package on your doorstep? How exciting to get a surprise, right? Well, for Clay Jensen, this package isn't what he hoped it would be. When he opens it, he finds cassette tapes and a note. The really scary thing is that these tapes have been left for him by a dead girl, Hannah, who committed suicide just a few weeks ago. Pills, they said. But why did she kill herself? She explains who is responsible for what she has done -- in her own words on the tapes, she gives 13 reasons why -- and they all have names. Despite being horrified at what he might hear about himself and the others on the tapes, he forces himself to listen to them. Along the way, following the map included with the recordings, he finds himself both excused and also held accountable. What Clay hears that night changes him forever. Recommended!
