Purple Heart

The book the purple heart is about a young man the is in Iraq serving is country. While over there he wakes up in a hospital bed in a place he doesn't know. He asks the doctor what was wrong with him but they couldn't give him a stright answer. He was nervous not knowing what had happened to him, he couldn't remember a thing. Matt layed his head back into his pillow and fell back asleep. Matt woke up to a high ranking army officer standing over him with an award for him. He wasn't sure what it was but then the man pulled it out of the box and it was the purple heart. Matt didn't think he did anything good to be awarded the metal, also he wanted to know what happened to the rest of his squad and all he could do was lay there and rest. This book is really good to read. I have a hard time setting it down. I like this type of book because it relates to me since I plan to join the National Guard. I would recommend this book to anyone.

13 reasons why

The book 13 reasons why has a significant title to it. In the beginning of the book a girl talks about her life and what had happened to her. She explains in tapes on why she had killed herself. There are 13 sides to the tapes where she tells everyone why she did this. The tapes were delivered to a guy that was in her class and as he listened to them he could believe what he was hearing. She tells him that he is one of the reasons why she did what she did and he couldn’t believe it because he didn’t really know her that well. Throughout the book it will explain why she killed herself and what took place with the other people that get the tapes.