Just Listen Book Report

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Just Listen is a book about a young teenage girl named Annabel Greene that is about to start her Junior year of highschool but is not looking forward to it because her best friend Sophie and her are not getting along anymore. Annabel has been keeping a dark secret about herself from everyone because she doesn’t want anyone to know. But some point throughout the book she is made to come out and tell people what happened to her. Annabel is from a small suburban town called Lakeview. Annabel’s mom is always trying to push her into doing fashion shows, but that’s not what Annebel wants to do. Annabel Greene is the main character in this book. She is the one who deals with a dark secret about herself and doesn’t want anyone to know about it. She …show more content…
Annabel agrees to Emily that she will make it to his court hearing. Clarke one of Owen's best friends, comes up to Annabel and tells her that Owen is worried about her and that she needs to talk to him about what is going on. Annabel goes to see Owen at the radio station and Owen is still quite upset with her, but once she explains herself to him he completely understands why she had been acting up that way. Owen tells her that he will be there with her at the court hearing while she is testifying against …show more content…
If you don’t pay attention to the past, you’ll never understand the future. It’s all linked together.” This is saying no matter how hard we try to push something away that we don’t want to remember and to forget about, it always has a way to coming back to haunt us. I find that to be very true, because that has happened to me many times. I never want to remember a certain thing, but doesn’t matter if it has been a week, a month, or a year. It will somehow come back to bite ya in the butt and that’s no

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