Sarah Dessen-Just Listen
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I have read many Sarah Dessen books so I figured that starting this project with one of her novels would be a great beginning. The book Just Listen starts off with a girl named Annabel, and she is watching herself on TV in a department stores commercial. You first guess is that she would be excited to see herself on the television, but she seems as though she is descusted by it. After that commercial the scene is the frist day of school and she is very very nervous as she is wating in the parking lot to go in. Annabel talks about how she is nervous to see and come in contact with a girl named Sohpie. She does not reveil why she is so nervous about seeing her. When the two saw eachother in the parking lot Sophie called Annable a very rude name that is not appropriate for school.
The book goes sot of back and fourth bbetween present time and the past. The book is told from Annabels point of view. She then goes on to tell how she met Sophie. Sophie had moved into their neighborhood and was the total girley girl with pink flip fops and a orange bikini at the pool. One day when the two were both waiting in line Sophie turned to Annabel and rudley said, "What are you looking at"? For the next week Sophie followed around Annabel's older sister Kirsten. Annabel has two older sisters Kirsten and Whitney. All three of the girls are models. One day when they were at the pool the new girl Sophie got in a fight with Kirsten and left without taking any of her things, so Annabel and Clarke, Annabel's best friend, went to her house and gave her her things. The three girls started to hang out and became good friends. Clarke was the more reserved friend so one night when Annabel and Sophie went to go hang out with guys Clarke stayed home, she was angry at Annabel for ditching her for the guys. The two best friends never spoke again.
Annabel is not friends with either Clarke nor Spohie by the time school starts so she feels alone and helpless and has to sit by herself everyday at lunch. She sits along a wall about six feet down from her is a guy Owen Armstrong that is very unique and she is constantly trying to figure hime out.
Annabels home life is not the best. Her oldest sister Kirsten lives in New York and is a model. Her other older sister Whitney went and moved out to New York with her to model as well. Whitney does not take the pressure well and devlops an eating disorder. It is very apparent to the family that she has a problem when she comes home to visit, but she denyes it. Untill one night that she is home visiting and Annabel finds her laying on the bathroom floor unconcious. She is taken to the hospital, then put into a treatment facility.
Although, Annabel does not like modeling anymore she still does it bacause she wants to make her mom happy. She is going to a photo shoot for a department store.
until next time....
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