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Thirteen Reasons Why

Taylor, Alli, Kailene, Colleen and Jen We chose "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher. This book is about suicide and other serious issues that teenagers face. The whole group is interested and concerned about the problems in this book. We like it because it is easy to relate too. The reviews for this book are really good.

Suicide from bullying with teenagers is becoming a huge problem. This book is about a boy who receives a package, which turns out to be a tape from a girl who committed suicide. The whole group decided that we want to find out more about what happened to this girl and what led up to her suicide. We are all interested in finding out this girls story.

This book is really easy to relate to because it is about bullying and suicide. The other issues in this book have to do with people doing drugs and drinking, which cause a lot more problems for teenagers. This makes it really easy to relate to the book because of all these issues.

We also want to read this book because we have heard from many people that it is an interesting and great book to read. The New York times also said "“Thirteen Reasons Why” was partly inspired by a relative of Mr. Asher’s who had tried to commit suicide. The idea of using tape recordings, he said, came from a visit to a casino in Las Vegas, where Mr. Asher used a recorded audio guide on a tour of an exhibition about King [|Tutankhamen] of Egypt" This book also won New York Times Best Seller, Publishers Weekly Best Sellers Award, along with many other awards.

This book has issues like rape/sex, drinking and drugs which could be a problem but it talks about real issues that go on in the world today. Everyone in the group will be able to handle reading about these things. It has a lot of lessons for us by showing us the problems that come with drinking, doing drugs, and bullying. We will be able to learn from the mistakes of the characters. This is a good book choice for our group.

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