By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Publisher : Hyperion Books Date : January 2010 Page Count : 200 Reading Level : Ages 13-17 BOOK DESCRIPTION: Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she's determined to get her death right. She starts visiting a website for "completers"- www.through-the-light .com. While she's on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she's not on the Web, Daelyn's at her private school, where she's known as the freak who doesn't talk. Then, a boy named Santana begins to sit with her after school while she's waiting to for her parents to pick her up. Even though she's made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won't give up. And it's too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life, isn't it? MY REVIEW: This book shows what can happens when the cruelty of others takes the recipient over the edge. Most of us