Trivia-on-Book: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! In Jay Asher's debut novel, we enter the life of Hannah Baker, a popular girl who goes to high school and seems to have everything. She slowly sees her life reach a breaking point as more and more of the people involved in it start inventing rumors about her. After being ignored by a professor whom she thought might help her, she...

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate recieves a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

The season picks up in the aftermath of Hannah's death and the start of our characters' complicated journeys toward healing and recovery. Liberty High prepares to go on trial, but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth surrounding Hannah's death concealed. A series of ominous Polaroids lead Clay and his classmates to the discovery that Hannah wasn't the only one to suffer at the hands of Liberty's elite. When the whole truth is exposed, no...

A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child, " and "The Butterfly That Stamped." Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "How the Armadillo Happened," and other animals How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to...

"When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death"--

Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...

After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

At the age of 28, Montessori became directress of a tax-supported school for defective children. Working thirteen hours a day with the children, she developed materials and methods which allowed them to perform reasonably well on school problems previously considered far beyond their capacity. Her great triumph, in reality and in the newspapers, came when she presented children from mental institutions at the public examinations for primary certificates,...