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Just Listen | 
| Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 1505
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0142410977
EAN: 9780142410974
ASIN: 0142410977
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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Product Description
when Annabel, the youngest of three beautiful sisters, has a bitter falling out with her best friendthe popular and exciting Sophieshe suddenly finds herself isolated and friendless. but then she meets owena loner, passionate about music and his weekly radio show, and always determined to tell the truth. And when they develop a friendship, Annabel is not only introduced to new music but is encouraged to listen to her own inner voice. with owens help, can Annabel find the courage to speak out about what exactly happened the night her friendship with Sophie came to a screeching halt?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 114 more reviews...
 Great book! November 8, 2008
Cristine Purdy
This is a great book of overcoming a disorder that can control your life. My teenage daughter really likes this book & I feel that the content is appropriate for her age.
just listen review October 30, 2008
Steven Hornik
Annabel has everything a girl could want, except friends. over the years events have occured to make her loose them but most of them werent her fault. in the begining she has a crazy family, and a best friend clarke. then all of a sudden this girl sofie comes along and ruins everything taking her best frien away and making noone like her at school. annabel was cauht in the bedroom with her boyfriend. from then on no one talked to annabel but only she knewthat she was raped that night. annabel soon met a kid named owen who they instinly clicked. they date and clarke and her start to talk again.
Fantastic Eye Opener! October 17, 2008
Cassi Kaste
If you have a daughter, sister, granddaughter, etc...
I highly recommend this book.
Story is very real. It could easily happen to anyone, therefore I feel every Young Adult female should read this. It tackles many problems teenage girls could go through.
It could help your young reader to stand up for herself or what have you.
Another Great Book October 14, 2008
Cindy (Long Island)
Just Listen, another teen novel by Sarah Dessen, is another great book written by her. But seriously...has she ever failed us? This novel is about a teen named Annabel who loses her friends, all of them. She becomes alone and sits on the wall, where she befriends another loner, an outcast, Owen. Owen had anger issues and goes to anger management. He's obsessed with music and makes Annabel a music junkie as well. But something happens and Annabel and Owen, they become loners again, all because Annabel couldn't tell Owen what happened that night her friend, Sophie, started to hate her. But, with the help of Owen and his music, she is able to find her voice and start living her life, the way she wants it to be. Another happy ending for a Sarah Dessen novel.
Another heartwarming, happy story that deals with the pressures teens, like myself, are facing now. A must read Sarah Dessen book, but all of her books are must reads! Also a quick read and very enjoyable. I highly recommend it.
I also recommend all of Sarah Dessen's books, the Twilight Saga (if you want an addicting book, read this), The Clique, Secrets of My Hollywood Life series, the Maximum Ride series and anything Meg Cabot. Thank you for taking the time for reading my review.
Peace. Love. Jonas.
~Cindy~
Wonderful, Real, And Engaging September 20, 2008
K.Warner
This is the first Sarah Dessen book I have picked up, and randomly at that since this one looked the most interesting on her almost mini shrine at Borders Express. It blew me away. The characters were well-developed, and the author showed many unique qualities about each of them and gave us insight into the even the smallest characters. The dialouge was real and not forced. I felt transported to a high school and felt everything Annabel did.
Annabel Greene is a part-time model and seems like she has the perfect life. If you look through her glass house, all you see is the exterior though; not her real thoughts. The girl she thought was her best friend dumped her rudely and meanly at a party, and although the whole situation was underestimated, Annabel can't and won't tell anyone what happened that May night. Alone at school, Annabel becomes friends with the music loving and honest Owen, who had anger issues at one point but now has recovered and teaches Annabel about his way of thinking. But Annabel doesn't just have her former friend Sophie to deal with: her older sister Whitney suffers from an eating disorder, and the whole family is concentrated on her recovery. Annabel doesn't want to tell anyone anything at the risk of them getting hurt; as she tells Owen, she is a nice liar.
One thing that made this book so real was the thoughts that came to Annabel along the way, the revelations she had. It gives the reader a whole new perspective on the young adult world. I do not think anything can top this book: it was so real and wise that it might never be repeated again.
The author doesn't let any character get away, a depth is disocvered in each one. There were funny moments, there were sad moments, yet this book wasn't predictable or unpredictable: it was life, and that is what made it great.
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