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Reader reviewed by Alexandra

Last year Annabel Greene was "the girl who had everything" -- or at least her character in a department store back-to-school commercial was. Now, Annabel considers herself the girl who has nothing. She has no best friend, no lunch table group, no happy family since her sister became anorexic, nothing. Nothing except the weight of an enormous secret as to exactly why she has no best friend, about what happened the night she went from the girl who had everything to the girl who had nothing. Then she meets Owen Armstrong, a tall, dark, imposing force who sits on her wall at lunch. Owen is a reformed bad boy who is music-obsessed and who always tells the truth. Annabel needs a friend, and Owen could be the perfect person to make her less afraid of herself, the world, and what really happened that night. This novel from renown author Sarah Dessen is impossible to put down, and has moments of both fluff and heaviness-- the perfect combination.