Fourteen year old Lauren "Lozzie" Cracknell cannot believe how much trouble she is in. First of all, her older sister Karen is outraged because Lauren always keeps borrowing Karen's green nail polish and other items without asking her permission. This really irritates Karen very much and she is furious and angry. To make matters worse, Lozzie's parents are separated and her mom is dating her English teacher, Mr. Hilary Barnett. As soon as Lozzie hears this, she gets very upset at both her mom and Mr. Hilary Barnett. Lozzie may be killed by her mom or by the school bully, Tonya, who is always looking for ways to threaten Lozzie. In addition to all this, Lozzie forgets to mail the invitation to her mom's customers at the A Cut Above salon; the latter is disturbed over an e-mail sent to all their classmates that combines Tonya's face with a donkey's body. When Tonya sees this, she gets very angry and blames Lozzie for doing that. With the help of Lozzie's best friend Dex, she finally gets the letters delivered. Tonya and her freaky super tall spy Fran the giraffe and their gang ready to execute Lozzie still remains a threat. At her mom's salon, Lozzie and Dex find a note addressed to Hilary black

This book is about Clay Jensen, a nice, quite high school boy who receives a package of 7 audiotapes numbered 1-13. He discovers that those numbers represent people who took part in his co-worker and crush's decision to commit suicide. He is one of them. Clay walks around town visiting landmarks that Hannah talks about on the tapes while listening, the whole time knowing that his turn will come.