Annabel Green was one of those girls who had everything, model looks, great family, cool friends; but then all that is just from the outside, just as the glass house she lives in, from outside it is just perfect but really no one bothers to know the inside. Annabel's likes to keep to herself her views, her thoughts so as to not hurt anyone with the bitter truth. Everything really starts changing fer her, when her grandmother dies suddenly and her mother starts going downhill. She really can't bear the sadness and puts up with the modeling, which is her mothers favorite hobby. She has 2 elder sisters, who would not to talk to each other and one of them has an eating disorder, which her family ignores, until it is too late.
Well, Annabel has a good friends following, until one night everything changes. She feels it safer to hide from them, than confront them. She, now is only friends with Owen who is a loner by choice! Owen is the only bright spot of her school life and her whole day in it's entirety.
When it comes to music or Annabel’s inner monologue, Owen’s advice remains the same:

don’t judge...just listen. ( )

Very good book about relationships... between a boy and a girl, a girl and her friends, and a girl and her family. The story is a little similar to Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, but this book definitely has enough going on to not seem like the "same ol' story." Annabel is easy to relate to and I think all readers will be able to remember at least one time they were too scared to come out with the truth. Owen was also a very likable character, as was his little sister. Both of Annable's sisters were fully fleshed out and easy to understand and relate with, as were Annabel's friends. The father was a little underdeveloped, but the mother wasn't. Overall this was a very well put together book and a pleasure to read. ( )

During the beginning of the book, I thought that I was wasting my time. As I progressed, I realized that "Just Listen"

Once I got over comparing this to Speak, I realised that it is a much different story. Annabel is best friends with the school mean girl - the kind it is safer to follow than oppose. So when mean girl ostracises her, Annabel - the beautiful model, with the perfect life - ends up hanging out with moody music dude. Who gets sweeter and sweeter once he stops preaching at her. This books is light and amusing, with undercurrent themes of the relationships between truth and damage.
I'd give this highschool romance fans, and people looking for high interest easy reads. ( )

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This novel is about a girl, Anabell who has problem with her family due to the cause of her sisters anerexcia. All her feelings are kept inside because she has no real friends until she meets this boy names Own. She becomes very comfortable with him and tells him everything. He is very much into music and makes her a CD thats titled just listen. She doesn't listen to it at all at first. There was one time where she was holding something back form Own and they go into a fight and ended up not talking for two months. Once she finally built up the courage to listen to the CD it was blank, so the next morning she went to his house and asked him what it was. He told her that he didn't remember why he gave her the CD an they talked everything out and they soon became famous together because of his music career.