false 3097601 1 I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts. Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Clearly, this is all a huge mistake. Forget about the bandages on his wrists and the notes on his chart. Forget about his problems with his best friend, Allie, and her boyfriend, Burke. Jeff's perfectly fine, perfectly normal, not like the other kids in the hospital with him. Now they've got problems. But a funny thing happens as his forty-five-day sentence drags on—the crazies start to seem less crazy. Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real, Suicide Notes is a darkly humorous novel from award-winning author Michael Thomas Ford that examines that fuzzy line between "normal" and the rest of us. 3128756 1 10 2008 Suicide Notes total:118|5:28|4:56|3:22|2:10|1:2| 118 452 285 38 4 1 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 06:58:06 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 07:56:12 -0800 2009
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Jeff is fifteen years old, from a good family, and he's just woken up in the psychiatric ward of the hospital.

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Spoiler Alert:
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You don't find out for sure until about 3/4 of the way through the book that (spoiler alert!) ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 12:51:12 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 13:02:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 14 11:45:24 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 20 12:00:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 25 23:14:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 15:12:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Oct 18 15:11:07 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 15:46:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 21:38:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 21:38:14 -0700 2009 Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp, but not quite as horrifying. This was another choice for the Gay-Straight Book Club (big hint about the reason behind the suicide note); it got one very enthusiastic review (from th...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 17:58:07 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 18:09:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 17 02:56:03 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 14:59:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 16:44:15 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 14:27:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 22 22:34:32 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 16:41:26 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 22:34:32 -0800 2009 more...]]>