Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager

I would rate this book a 5 because this is one of the best books i have read. This book is a good book for a girl who is going through the same thing to read, because she would learn her lesson just like Annie did with her boyfriend Danny. Having a baby is a blessing but not when you are still practically a baby yourself and haven't even gotten halfway through high school. Overrall this book is a very good example what teen girls go through and what teen boys do after a baby they know is theirs is born. Whoever haven't read this book should defineteky read it because it is amazing.

Annie's Baby is, to put it simply, a waste of paper. To begin, I don't believe for an instant that it is THE ACTUAL DIARY of a 14-year-old girl. I myself am a 14-year-old girl, and I have honestly never met a girl my age as immature and ridiculous as "Annie". Words like "kadoodle", "dizzy-fizzy", "billion-zillion-kat-tillion" show either the mental capacity of a six-year-old or an absurd attempt to make the writing sound younger. Annie repeats herself constantly and speaks almost entirely in youth-group cliches.
"Hey, wait.. either he'll like me FOR ME or not at all!!! Right?!"
"Can PLAIN ME possibly be good enough for AWESOME, RADDER-THAN RAD HIM?!"
"I'm going to dedicate my life to helping HIM be the BEST HIM he CAN BE!!!"
and my favourite,
"Did he REALLY MEAN IT when he said 'EVERYONE IS DOING IT'?"
To make it even more unbelievable, she speaks to her diary quite literally as if it were another person -- to the point of having arguments and TANTRUMS with it.
"Annie": "Danny's right; I'm just being a little girl, booby baby boob tube."
"Daisy Diary": "I don't think so."
"Annie": "HA...you CAN'T THINK!! you're just paper."
"Daisy Diary": "AM I? Or am I your conscience?"
Asserting her independance comes down to capslocking at her diary that SHE DOESN'T NEED ITS ADVICE ANYMORE. It is understandable that Ms. Sparks thought using and overusing capital letters, italics and multiple exclamation marks would make this sound authentic, but she does it all wrong. Try reading some of these sentences aloud; they don't line up. No one would speak this way, and no one would write it either. Teenage girls deserve more credit than "Annie" gets for knowing their minds and understanding people and motives and consequences of actions. Even when she lies to her mother, she feels excruciatingly guilty in a way that, honestly, no one feels after the age of eight. Even after it becomes clear to the reader that Danny is gutterscum -- within approximately ten seconds of the introduction of his character -- she continues to insist that he is a beautiful sensitive soul and couldn't possibly have meant to hurt her or use her.
Also! Read the Note from Ms. Sparks at the beginning of the book. Notice how she has patronisingly written in the EXACT tone her protagonist uses throughout the book? So are the supposed-to-be informative Q&A at the end. Hmm.
The writing style of this book was so ridiculous in itself that I hardly reached the point of analysing her actions. Annoying though "Annie" undeniably is, she cannot be faulted for some of the things she does. Many girls do stay in abusive relationships, although it's much more common for to deny the situation altogether than to talk every action to death, and then decide it happened a different way. Many girls are raped or hurt by boyfriends and keep it quiet out of shame or "love" for them.. and so forth. I just think this was a wasted opportunity to bring some of these issues to light in a fresh, not-preachy way.

-- Ana.

This was a wonderful book! I could'nt put it down for not a second! It takes you through the trials & tribulations of this 14-year-old pregnant teacher! I think this is an awesome book that all teenage girls should read! It teaches a positive lesson & I'd give it a million thumbs up (if I had a million thumbs)!!!

Being 14 years old myself, I found myself drawn to the idea of this story, because where I live, there is an incredible peer pressure for underage sex, and a lot of people don't understand the REAL risks of that. So I pick up this book, hoping to find an interesting and insightful account into the world of the consequences of said acts, but insted I find a diary written by a girl who barley has the emotional maturity of an 10 year old ("HE...came runningtoward the football field, suited up like a reqular NFL star and gorgeous as Brad Pitt, even gorgeouser...is that a word? If it isn't, it should be!") and her story of a downward sprial of "hanging with the wrong crowd" and ending up pregnant.

There were times while reading this book, I wanted to go in and simply slap some sense into this girl. Far beyond the time us readrers realise that her "Danny" is complete scum, she still "loves" him, although hes abusive and controling. It was just so intensly frusterating to read, and it was the same message over and over again. She has the kid, but she doesn't want it. It's ruining her life, etc. It tries to be a warning to people my age, but it comes off as repetitive and boring, at least to me.

I read 'Annie's Baby' about a year ago. I was expecting something powerful, maybe even touching. But instead what I got was a load of junk! This Character 'Annie' starts out seeming like your average teen. When she discovers herself as pregnant it all turns downhill. The Author seems to excuse her responsibility by making her a victim of rape and creates a whiny bratty girl. Annie is nothing but selfish through most parts and also very foolish. She wants an abusive boyfriend even after everything he's ever done to her. The ending was sappy and perhaps unrealistic and it frightens me that the Author has this character fight with her 'Diary'. My advice: if your looking for some that's sad and a bit on the unreal side go ahead. Don't expect an award winning book though.