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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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. edit delete 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. 0.074 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0670061050, Hardcover)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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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. (