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Just Listen

by Sarah Dessen

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... (read more)

Top tags: young adult,  music,  sarah dessen,  realistic fiction,  romance (all tags)

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Shivani
  • Rated 5 stars

“Annabel Greene used to be friends with Sophie, but over the summer there was in incident where Sophie thought Annabel was doing things with her boyfriend which she WASN'T, so things change during the school year. She has no friends until music-obsessed, truth-telling Owen befriends her. He enlightens her about music and trys to make Annabel open up to the things in her life. Her sister Whitney's eating disorder, wanting to quit modeling, and what happened with Sophie, and the little fibs she...”

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  • Rated 4.35514 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Erin M

    erin m said:

    “yeah I love how in all her books she puts in just at least one scene with one or two characters from another book. I think it is so clever, and true.
    Tones of people who have had issues in the past, unknowingly being right next to, or talking to someone, or meeting someone who also has issues and is finding their way out.”

    posted 3 weeks ago
  • Alyssa C

    alyssa c said:

    “owen is amazing, i wish icould be like him, in not lying at all, but i dought i can do thaat”

    posted Monday, July 7 2008
  • ~* Kali Romley Renfroe*~

    ~* kali romley renfroe*~ said:

    “I like Owen alots, he's funny!”

    posted Monday, July 7 2008
  • dolphinlcc

    dolphinlcc said:

    “I want an Owen. I just totally fell in love with him. I loved when he gave QWill a black Eye. I think that was needed also when they were kissing in the car wash. All i want to say is i want one of these stories to happen to me.”

    posted Monday, June 30 2008
  • ~* Kali Romley Renfroe*~

    ~* kali romley renfroe*~ said:

    “Yeah, I think this book is an great book to read! I enjoyed it alot.”

    posted Saturday, June 21 2008
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