Just Listen
by:
Sarah Dessen (author)
Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that’s the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf ’s Department Store.This year, she’s the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became...
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Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that’s the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf ’s Department Store.This year, she’s the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling.With Owen’s help,maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends. In this multi-layered, impossible-to-put-down book, Sarah Dessen tells the story of a year in the life of a family coming to terms with the imperfections beneath its perfect facade.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670061051 (0670061050)
Publish date: April 6th 2006
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Pages no: 383
Edition language: English
This was a much better book than I expected. The way it handled serious issues was careful and deliberate. Trigger warnings for rape and sexual assault. Given the description on the book page, I wasn't really prepared for what I found in this book. As mentioned above, the issues were handled with gr...
This is my very first Sarah Dessen.I held off for a specific reason, that her writing would be too light for me. It's hard because I know this book covered some pretty serious topics, like Anger Control, Sexual Assault, and Anorexia... I just don't think that it covered those topics in a way that fe...
Eindelijk weer een 5 sterren boek!Ik vond dit boek geweldig!
One of my very favorite teen books. There's just so much to like here, and it's so much more complex than it initially seems... My full review is here, on Hot Stuff for Cool People.
The feels have broken the flood gates. Clean up may take a while.Also, this book completely makes me feel good about my decisions to avoid parties and avoid alcohol. I'm really glad I made those choices in both my high school and college careers. Thank God I was a prude. Though I'm sure that's not w...