Book Report
Title: Thirteen Reasons Why
Author: Jay Asher
This novel is about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide & before she died she recorded 13 audiotapes filled with reasons why she killed herself and they all had to do with a specific person, and she sent all the 13 tapes to the 13 people so they could listen. Justin was the first person on the tape, the boy she first kissed, he exaggerated what they did when they kissed, making her seem “easy” to other boys. 2nd Alex, a boy who said she had the hottest behind in the freshman class on his “hot or not list” making her seem more vulnerable to other boys. 3rd Jessica, one of Hannah’s first friends, She’s mad that Hannah is on the hot list & she's on the "not" list. Jessica also believed the rumor that Justin started about Hannah during their first kiss even though Jessica knew Hannah didn’t do the things he said. 4th Tyler, a boy who stalked her, outside her own bedroom window. Taking pictures without her knowledge until she found out. 5th Courtney, a really nice girl, but she was only nice to Hannah to gain "tally’s" for being voted nicest for the senior yearbook & get a ride to a party. The 6th person was Marcus, a boy Hannah went on a date with and he came 30 mins late because he wasn’t going to come at all but he only came to try and have sex with her. 7th Zach Dempsey stole her compliments from her paper bag in peer communications class. 8th Ryan Shaver, He stole her poem and put it in the school newspaper and took credit for it. 9th Clay Jensen he didn’t have anything to do with her suicide she just wanted to tell him she wished she got to know him better. 10th Justin again because he let Bryce rape Jessica while she was drunk. 11th Jenny Kurtz a cheerleader who hit a stop sign while Hannah was in her car and drove off and that caused a car crash that killed someone. 12th Bryce Walker the boy who took