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Gr 9-Up Annabel Greene seemingly had everything: cool friends, close family, good grades, and a part-time modeling career in town. But it all came crashing down, and Annabel has spent the summer in shaky, self-imposed exile. She finds herself dreading the new school term and facing, well, everyone again. The last thing she wants to do is revisit old friendships -while the losses are painful, the secrets behind the rifts are almost unbearable. Her solid family seems fragile, too. What happened to cause the stiff silenc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Annabel is nice. She is nice enough to take local modeling jobs to make her mother happy, watch the History Channel with her father when no one else will, and go out of her way to befriend others. She's so nice that when her own problems—a falling-out with self-absorbed best friend Sophie and the subsequent social shunning—threaten to overwhelm her, she says nothing at all. It wouldn't be nice to draw attention away from more important...Log In or Sign Up to Read More