Fairypup2 gives you the scoop on an amazing novel.

Interested in a creative, suspenseful book to read over the summer? I know the book you should read, then. It's called "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher.

Here's a summary.

Clay receives a package in the mail with no return address. He opens the box to find that it contains seven tapes, each recorded with the voice of Hannah Baker, who committed suicide two weeks before. Clay listens to the first tape and discovers that these tapes are a list of reasons why Hannah has killed herself. Each person who receives the tapes is on her list. Clay soon finds out that unless he listens to them and then sends them on to the next person on the list, something will happen that could change everything. Clay travels the town with a map and the voice of Hannah as his guide and realizes how others' actions can cause a snowball effect on someone's life.

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Laura4381 does an experiment.

Can your avatar really run faster if it has less items on it?

Have you ever seen an avatar go fast and try to figure out why yours doesn't? Perhaps you have too much on your avatar and it's weighing you down. I'm going to see if I can work out how fast you can go with the help of Kinematic Attic.

To start I made a prediction. I predicted that the less items I had on my avatar, the faster I would run. My brother, set out to prove me wrong, predicted that it wouldn't make a difference. I started with just a head. I went into the Bazaar and said "ruler". I timed myself running 300 pixels three times. After this I put 20 items (the maximum you can have) on my head and timed myself running the same distance three times. Finally I did the same thing with my usual avatar. After another three runs I calculated the average time for each set of three runs. To do this I took the scores of my three runs, added them together, then divided them by how many there were. So my times were as follows:

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