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

I read this book my freshman year of high school. The reason i choose to read it was because i found out it had the same editor as Go as Alice and i loved that book. When i started readign this book u realized it was very easy to read but it just gets anoying. The girl is a complete idiot. I understand she was young but come on. Even after he found out she was pregnant and said he wanted nothin to do with her she still wanted to be with him. He kept hurting her and she kept coming back. It's a good book and the ending is intresting. I think you should read the book because you'll like the ending.

I started reading this book because of the concept. I thought it would be an interesting look into the struggles of teen pregnancy. Unfortuneately, I never even got to that part. Annie's personality is just so annoying that I wanted to scream. For one, she is constantly caught up in a whirlwind of confusion, teen angst, and puppy-dog-ish eagerness, so much so that you want to tell her to take a tranquilizer and calm down. She repeats the sentence "I HAVE to help him be the BEST he can BE!!!" at least three times when writing about her boyfriend, even though it's as plain as daylight to readers that he is a jerk. Plus, she is always arguing with "the diary" (a.k.a. herself), having entire conversations with it...ugh.

The decisions she makes are even more baffling than her bizarre thought process. After being brutally raped by aforementioned boyfriend, does she call the police? Tell an adult? No. Instead, she runs home, and when her mom questions her messed up appearance, she replies (and I quote): "Well, I was jogging, and a car hit me, but please don't call the police, because I wasn't on the sidewalk, and I was kind of running towards it!!!" WTF!?!? Even more crazily, she then says that she's going to stay with her boyfriend, because the rape just proves that he needs someone to help him be the "BEST he can BE!!!" At this point, I tossed the book down in disgust. Next time I want to read about the struggles of teens, I will choose a book with a more sane and mature narrator.

This book is about a 14 year old girl who just wants to be loved and have someone focus their attention on her. She meets Danny, who seems to her to be the most wonderful guy in the world until later on she finds out that is not the case. She ends up pregnant by Danny and continually tries to make-up with him, hoping that maybe he really isn't so bad or that he'll change his ways. Throughout the book she feels empty, exhausted, and confused. The only things I didn't like about this book was how "Annie" kept repeating the same things over and over, and sometimes when I was reading I got lost and couldn't quite understand what "Annie" was talking about. I think I prefer books with chapters rather than reading it in a diary format. Books divided into sections or chapters seem more "put together" and just easier for me to follow and understand. Overall this is an alright book and gives some good advice.

I started reading it and finished it the same day because it was so intriguing and easy to read. At first, the narrator, "Annie," is such an absolute moron I can hardly believe it - she is so completely enamored with her boyfriend Danny that she is completely blind to all of his faults - even if these "faults" include calling her names, making fun of her in front of his friends, pressuring her into drinking alcohol, hitting her, and raping her. Somehow she always manages to excuse his horrible behavior and continues to convince herself that she is in love with him, though she occasionally has moments of doubt in which she can't believe he does such things. The fact that Annie is only 14 (and in the eighth grade) is shocking and disturbing, especially when she gets pregnant. Danny (who is 16) of course dumps her as soon as she tells him she is pregnant, and in addition, he calls her names and claims the baby isn't his - even though this is a downright lie, since he is the one who pressured her into sex, and she did not do it with anyone else. Eventually Annie becomes a more intelligent and responsible person and it's not hard to feel sorry for her, even though she was such a dolt at the beginning. Though I have suspicions that Sparks, the "editor," of this book in fact wrote it (the writing style is awfully similar to that of "Go Ask Alice," and some parts and conversations just seem completely unrealistic), it was a fascinating, though disturbing read and I would recommend it. Though Sparks seems to direct it towards teenage girls who might fall into Annie's situation, anyone can read it.

Annie's baby is written by an anonymous teenager, it is a journal by a young girl whos life was like any average teenager. She hung out with friends, went to the mall, and even did an excellent job in school, which happened to be her favorit activity. But like any naive teenager, she got into hanging out with the wrong crowd. She faced tough decisions regarding her boyfriend, her mom, and her old and new friends. As many teenagers do, she learned the hard way. Annie went from being an ideal student to one with mental and social problems. She devoloped these illnesses throughout the book from the hard, long life lessons she experienced. Annies Baby was an excellent book for any girl who has faced any type of problem. I can relate to Annie on many leavels, like when she starts lieing to her friends and sneaking around on her mom. After reading this novel, I now know how I would feel if this happened to me or a loved one. In fact I felt a deep connection with Annie. I would recommend this book to any teenage girl who likes Non-fiction stories about learning life lessons.