Thirteen Reasons Why

By: Jay Asher

Published October 18th 2007 by Razorbill

Category: Biography

Pages: 288 pages

ISBN: 9781595141712

Description:
You canÕt stop the future.
You canÕt rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah BakerÐhis classmate and crushÐwho committed suicide two weeks earlier. HannahÕs voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, heÕll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to HannahÕs pain, and as he follows HannahÕs recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.