Just Listen

By Sarah Dessen

Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology), Young adult fiction, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Dysfunctional families, Teenage girls, High schools, Family, Interpersonal relations, Schools, fiction, Models (persons), fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Honesty, Schools, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Best friends, Models (Persons), Friendship

Description: 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.