Annie's Life in Lists

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: September 10, 2018

Review

This is good for a quick read, fun story, and a different way to look at writing. The chaptersare Ainne's life month by month. Annie's lived in Brooklyn and has to move to a small town, Clover Gap. She has an amazing memory for people details... name, name of everyone in your family, your pets, what you like, don't like, and anything that you have ever done. She gets kicked out of her former school because she had to bring a note to the principal. While there she gets nevous,she a picture of the principal and another man. She finds out he is the principal's brother, and she tells the principal that he looks like the drycleaner man near her family, but the stopped going there because the man had a cat, and her dad has allergies. Brother does have a drycleaning company and a cat, but his shop is in a different district. Parents and kids more out to the counrty. Her older brother is very angry at her and Annie tries to hide her memory from others. Examples of list titlles; Four examples of how quiet I can be, Four reasons I'm quiet, Four things I have pretended not to remember so people won't think I was weird #2. A conversation I had with Jesse Bruner in first grade where he told me he hadn't washed his hair in two months

Overall Book Score: good