I loved this book so much that I taught it to a Grade 9 and 10 class low-literacy class, who were inspired to become active in their community to help people "So no one has to get a box on their door.or mp3s in their email.and hurt like Clay and Hannah did." When the students ask me if they're allowed to lend the book to friends and family, when a mother phones me in happy tears because her daughter wants a BOOK for Christmas, that's when I know the novel is great.īased on several reviews I read on this book, I am guessing I am one of the people who thought it was just ok, well maybe not even that. His main character's reactions are realistic and inevitable, and his storytelling weaves together 12 stories into one cohesive whole. On top of that, Jay Asher's novel is an accurate, sometimes painfully so, rendering of teen life, teen sorrow, and teen frustration. Compellingly written and evocatively voiced, this audiobook comes from a novel whose premise - a boy's inner monologue as he is listening to audiotapes of a dead girl's voice - is ideally suited to the listened. The trouble with making books into audiobooks is that some simply do not survive the translation in media intact.
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