Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.

I want to start out this review by saying the age level for this book is teetering between 12 and up as well as 14 and up. I think the best that I can say about it is that it deals with some heavy emotions and subjects that basically an accelerated reader could handle. I would compromise and say 13 and up since some of the storyline is about how girl in question starts out high school and continues on from there. The subject of suicide is never a light subject to anybody so this book may not be for everybody but I think it really tells a message. If you pay attention more to someone and lend your heart and hand...you may be able to save them. Unfortunately, this is not the case in the book because Clay is listening to the tapes that she created and she has been dead for a couple of weeks by this point. I haven't been touched by a book in awhile and this book really toyed with my emotions. I have to say that I was feeling what Clay felt while he was listening to certain tapes and I couldn't believe some of the events that happened to Hannah. Though there were a few times where I felt that she was really good at harboring a grudge and not good at letting go of it. This book was so incredibly frustrating for me as well as Clay because there was absolutely NOTHING you could do to change the ending. Hannah is gone. You're aware of this in the beginning and yet you think something different will happen throughout some of the stories. There was one point where Clay started screaming and I wanted to do the same thing. This book is definitely not a book for younger kids and you have to be in the right mindset for it as well but I would recommend it to the older tweens if not the teens.