But she is a kid and her way of coping would be different. What spoke to me so much was the fact she didn't act the way you would think after someone had died. What it was doing was holding her back.Īnnie is weird and quirky and has thoughts a regular young girl would have. One day a new neighbor moves in and will change Annie's view and help her and the people who love her to be able to start closing that figurative umbrella that she's been using to protect herself.
Her parents seem to be different people now, and nobody seems to understand her. She still hangs out with her best friend, and talks to her brother's best friend, but even she can tell that things are off. Other than being uber careful she still leads a normal life (or so she thinks). He died from something unexpected, and she can't let that happen to her too. Ever since her brother Jared died she has to be careful. Annie's mentality is if it could be dangerous, why take the risk? She didn't used to be like this. Just to take a trip down to the local store she wears a helmet, knee elbow and ankle pads, and doesn't even actually ride her bicycle there anymore. Using the word careful to describe Annie Richards would be an understatement.
Anyways that's off track here the author captures what it would be like to be a young girl dealing with a huge loss. If it weren't for authors who wrote for kids I know I probably wouldn't have become a reader. Thank goodness we have authors who can remember enough so young readers will want to read. You know how you think you won't ever forget? Well inevitably you do forget some things. I wanted to feel like what it was to be a kid again. It's not any of the books were really bad, but I wanted something different. You know how you get tired of reading the same thing over and over again? I was in that kind of rut.
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