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    Amanda Project, The: invisible I

    Written by Amanda Valentino

    Narrated by Emily Eiden

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    Amanda Valentino changed everything.

    Callie Leary has exactly one thing, and one thing only, in common with Nia Rivera and Hal Bennett: They were each chosen by Amanda to be her guide. When Amanda arrived at Endeavor High, she told Callie she moves around a lot and always picks one person to help her navigate the choppy waters of a new school. Why did Amanda lie?

    Following a course that they suspect Amanda deliberately plotted, Callie, Nia, and Hal piece together some cryptic clues. But they find more questions than answers and quickly realize that before they can figure out what happened to Amanda-the girl who changed their lives-they'll need to solve the most important mystery of all: Who is Amanda Valentino?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 22, 2009
    ISBN9780061952548
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    • 3/5
      At first this book seemed more about confusion than it did about mystery, but by the end I did want to know what happened. I wasn't really curious about Amanda as much as I wanted to know about Callie's mother and the mystery surrounding her disappearance.
    • 5/5
      Ok, so I found this book when I went to the library with our book club. Of course I was intrigued by the fact that it was the AMANDA project, but it ended up being more than I could’ve ever hoped for. When Callie meets Hal and Nia, she thinks they are total freaks. (Even if one is a hot freak.) But in the end this all changes, because (one of the many things I liked about the plot) Amanda’s disappearance wasn’t just a coincidence, and she doesn’t just want them to find her, she wants them to find each other. Amanda’s hidden motive was to bring them together to right Callie’s past. Another thing that lends to the amazing story was the dialogue and hat it gives to the characters. Everyone in the book has their distinct dialogue. Hal is the “deep” artsy peace maker. Callie is the complicated one, who makes sure to make her life look perfect on the outside even though it is truly horrible. And Nia is my favorite. She has so many witty comebacks and one liners! I also love how she keeps surprising Callie. She surprises her with her subtle style, her gorgeous parents, and seemingly perfect home life. I guess I like her because she is a lot like me. (: I also like the little twists and turns in the plot, they really get enhanced by Callie’s flashbacks. Overall this book is amazing, and you all should go read it. I am so excited because it is the first of 8 and the next one comes out on June 22 (: Enjoy!
    • 5/5
      This book is about Amanda Valentino. Amanda has gone missing and her friends, Hal, Nia, and Callie are trying to find her. Amanda is somewhere close to be able to give them messages but won't tell her friends where she is. Amanda lied about where she lived so her friends have no idea where to start looking for her. Amanda practically lied about everything to every friend she's ever had. At the end of the book, Amanda's friends still doesn't know where she is. So Hal comes up with the idea of a website about Amanda. When they put up the website, they start to really worry.This book is really good. Everytime Callie gets a new message from Amanda, I keep thinking that they're going to find Amanda but they're still looking. I didn't like how Amanda lied to her friends and just left them hanging. I can't wait to read the second book of the Amanda Project series.
    • 5/5
      The book starts off with Callie, she is in class and get's called out to go to the vice principal's office. When she gets there there are two other kids from her school, Hal and Nia. Callie and Hal used to be friends a long time ago but their friendship died, so Callie was really confused when she gets called into the office and there are two people sitting there that she doesn't talk to. The vice principal then informs them that they are in trouble for vandalizing his car. Of course none of them did it but they all get in trouble and must do Saturday detention's and clean the vice principal's car. The vice principal then asks them the question that starts the whole book, "Where is Amanda Valentino?" Amanda is the weird crazy girl in school who lied to Callie, Hal, and Nia about everything. Where she lived, where she grew up, who her parents were. Then one day she disappears and leaves Callie, Hal, and Nia in a lot of trouble. Through out the book they all join together to search for Amanda and in the process they learn more about themselves and each other and Callie makes a big decision about the I girls. The I girls are what the book was named after, each popular girl in school had an I in their name. Callie didn't to begin with until they changed that. But as the book goes on Callie realized that it wasn't everything to fit in when you weren't happy. This is the first book in the series, I can not wait for the others!
    • 4/5
      Invisible I is a fantastic reminder that not all Young Adult fiction needs to revolve around brooding creatures of the night. Calli is a member of a semi elite group in her high school who are known as the I girls, as each of them modifies their names to end with an 'i'. Callie may seem a part of this shallow fashionable posse but deep down she is dealing with harsher problems; her mother has been missing for nearly a year and her Dad is falling apart under the strain. As if Callie's life wasn't stressful enough with peer pressure and home life troubles her world is further turned upside down when her eccentric and mysterious friend Amanda suddenly vanishes and the Vice Principal thinks that Callie is involved along with two other noted school misfits Nia Rivera and Hal Bennett with whom she is thrown together. No one knows where Amanda has gone although she has left various eccentric puzzles behind for the three to solve. Somehow the puzzle of Amanda who claims to choose only one guide to show her around each school is linked to Calli's mother's disappearance. This is the first of an eight book arc and I will definitely be reading the sequels on the strength of this first installment. Callie is a very sympathetic character and her reluctant interactions with Hal and Nia who are both social outcasts are believable and true to life. As a mystery novel this works very well and is engaging in terms of plot, it is by no means your stereotypical teen mystery which talks down to the reader or spoonfeeds them clues; here you really do have to think about what is happening. The interactive website attached to the Amanda Project is pretty cool and younger readers will be enchanted by the options toshare your opinions, theories, and artwork about what happened to Amanda. Even if you aren't bothered by the options that make this novel an interactive experience this is still one of the smartest young adult novels ot be released in a while.
    • 4/5
      Callie's friend Amanda suddenly disappears - and the Vice Principal seems to think that she had something to do with it! She and Hal Bennett and Nia Rivera, whom he accuses of withholding information. They have detention until they 'fess up. The only problem is: they don't know what happened to Amanda either. Now in a race against time and dealing with her own personal problems, Callie, along with Hal and Nia must find their missing friend and unravel the clues she's left behind.This first in a planned series of eight books is fast-paced and engaging, though it sometimes took a long while for the characters to confirm what I already knew - namely, that they have to find Amanda. I actually liked Callie, though her popular friends the "I-Girls" fell into the stereotypical "mean girl" category and didn't have the same development Callie did. The main reason I didn't rate this higher is because of the melodramatic tone of the writing, which I found distracting. Case in point (from page 224, though it doesn't give anything away in terms of plot): "As I rode my bike along the perfectly paved roads of The Acres, I got an inkling of what my mother had felt, as if the sprinklers dousing the emerald green lawns were spraying out not water but blood." I'm sorry, but what? You're biking through the rich neighborhood saying your mother hated the sameness of it and that's the image that comes to mind? Next sentence: "Heidi had paid a price for living her parents' dream in somewhere as protected and perfect as The Acres, and that price was nothing less than her very soul." I get what she was saying, I just found it a bit much. There's a related website which I can see being a pull to older fans of The 39 Clues that includes notes from Callie, Hal, and Nina as well as quizzes and a place for users to share pictures of clues they've found.
    • 4/5
      Amanda Valentino is not your typical high school student. She’s mysterious and eccentric, and on top of her “I don’t give a damn what you think” attitude, she’s also the new girl at Endeavor High School. And as anyone who’s ever been a freshman at a new high school or a “new kid” in any grade knows it’s never easy. Although Amanda makes it seem not only easy, but also fun if you can imagine that.Our narrator, Callie, is part of the “I girls” which consist of your typical, yet true to life “mean girls,” but Callie isn’t as much like her “friends” as they think she is. Callie is compassionate and real, she doesn’t have the perfect life and she’s not the happy-go-lucky girl that her schoolmates think she is. Really, the only friend she has is Amanda, her mother disappeared, and her father has decided to drink his way through their wine cellar because he believes his wife has left him.Everything continues to work like clockwork until one morning Callie is summoned to the ever annoying and rude Vice Principal, Mr. Thornhill, and is told that she and the two other people that have been summoned to his office are in trouble for something that Amanda has done (I love the car! Just saying!) and unless they tell him where she is, they will be punished. As Callie looks at two people she’s not friends with and is convinced that neither is Amanda, she begins to wonder more and more, “Where is Amanda?”The other two people involved are Hal and Nia. Neither are in Callie’s circle of friends, and neither are people she particularly wants in her circle, but there’s something about the connection to Amanda that they share that just might bring them together. Despite the petty differences and the typical high school girl style remarks and looks Callie and Nia give one another, it’s fairly easy to see where this is leading. They will be friends, even if it’s just to find out what has happened to Amanda.I would have preferred to know more about Amanda than her penchant for wigs, wild attire, and a few minor details, but I still found her to be my favorite character. I don’t think characters were mentioned in this story by mistake, I think each character has their role or at least will in one of the seven sequels planned for The Amanda Project. I also think Mr. Thornhill plays a bigger role in Callie’s life than she realizes, but in all my years of soap operas and living in fictional worlds where anything is possible, I think I know where he’ll play in (and I think older teens and adults may realize it too).Overall, I found it to be a good start to a teen mystery. It’s a book that’s not all about sex, drugs, or violence and while I’m definitely no prude, I find that totally refreshing. Invisible i is a fun, fairly quick read. It’s totally cute and has some really fun art throughout the book (although I have the ARC and it’s missing a bunch of it, there was still some that was great) [I have now seen the finished copy, and it's got some totally awesome artwork now, like seriously]. I wish there had been more answers by the end; it did leave me curious about where this series is going and I will be back in July 2010 to find out!Plus, there’s a pretty cool interactive website attached to The Amanda Project, in which you can share your opinions, theories, and artwork about what happened to Amanda. There’s also a shop to buy some cool stuff inspired by Amanda and some The Amanda Project gear (I love the cute little buttons). If you’re looking for a cute, light mystery then it’s something you should check it out. Middle grade girls would totally love it, and fans of Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan/Rachel McAdams movie that almost all of us know and most love) would probably enjoy it too!
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book, and then when I saw the website that accompanies the series I thought it was even cooler! Amanda is a mysterious new girl at the school who secretly befriends three very different people. When she vandalizes the Vice Principal's car and then seems to disappear, Nia, Hal, and Callie, learn to trust each other to try to find Amanda. Not much is resolved in this first book in the series. But it ends with the group building the website for the Amanda Project. Callie is the narrator for the first installment, and she is a really interesting character herself. Her disappeared mother may have something to do with Amanda's case. The Amanda Project website is an extension to the series with entries from the various characters that invite the readers to respond, speculate, and deconstruct the story for clues.
    • 2/5
      The Amanda Project is a good story, and I believe even better for the younger generations. Being a huge fan of YA books I found myself surprised when I become bored in this book. The storyline was a great story, but it just did not hold my attention. I surprisingly finished this story, but only after struggling half of the book. I will not be reading any more of this series. If you are in middle school or high school this is the book for you. If you are a lover of YA books, but are older this unfortunately may not hold your attention.
    • 4/5
      Callie has been a part of the in-crowd for years, yet somehow she manages to keep her friendship with the new girl, Amanda, a secret. When Amanda suddenly disappears, Callie can't figure out why the principal would think she, Hal, and Nia (two social outcasts that she hardly gives the time of day) had anything to do with it. Soon she discovers that they were all independently friends with Amanda without knowing it. Following a series of seemingly random clues, they band together to try to discover what happened to her.
    • 4/5
      This review was originally posted on my review blog : Falling Off The Shelf.Callista Leary, better known as Callie, is an I-Girl. I-Girls are the most popular girls in school, and they don't associate with people of a lesser rank. Callie on the other hand, doesn't judge others as easily as the rest of the girls in her clique. She's smart, gets good grades, and enjoys learning. It's no surprise that when a new girl comes to town, it's Callie who will be showing her the ropes.When Amanda Valentino comes to town, it's Callie's job to tutor her. She starts as a mere study partner, but soon becomes good friends with the newcomer. Amanda tells Callie that she will be her 'guide' while she is going to school at Endeavor High, and this makes Callie feel special. So it's not unlikely, that when Amanda Valentino goes missing, Callie is extremely upset.When Callie finds out that she is not the only 'guide' Amanda has, she becomes distraught. Why would Amanda lie to her? Why would she tell her she was special, only to tell another the same thing? It's even worse that Amanda was also friends with two of the biggest freaks in school, Hal Bennett and Nia Rivera. With the clues that Amanda leaves behind, these three students, who are absolutely not friends, must stick together to solve the mystery of their missing friend.There is a lot going on in this first installment to The Amanda Project, but it all flows extremely well. The story is told in the present, but Callie has flashbacks along the way. During these flashbacks you learn tidbits of her life that she didn't realise were so significant until the current day. Callie learns who she is, all the while learning who she can trust. It's a novel of friendship, and what you will do to protect those you care about.I really enjoyed this book by authors Stella Lennon and Melissa Kantor. It was full of mystery, including little clues that you could try and decipher for yourself. I particularly liked that there were pictures showing you exactly what the characters in the book were seeing. You can even go to AmandaProject.com and sign up to solve the clues with other readers. I'm excited to read the next installment of this series, as it leaves you on a cliffhanger wanting more. I'd like to thank Barnes and Noble for sending me a ARC of this novel to read and review. It was a quick read, and I didn't want to put it down.
    • 4/5
      Invisible I is a promising start to what could be a great series! Invisible I takes you through Amanda's disappearance and her 3 "guides" quest to find her. It was definately a page turner, because I kept thinking Who's Amanda? and What's She Doing? This was a totally fun read. My issue with Invisible I was that it didn't seem come to any point. For Book 1, I don't necessarily want all the answers for the series, but I'd like a little more information. When Book 1 finishes, I want some issues resolved and also putting something new on the field. I felt that I was just running in the same circles throughout the entire book. All I really figured out was that Amanda told about a bajillion different stories. I also found it a little hard to believe everything she managed to pull off - though maybe that's a topic for the next 7 books. The ending is totally intriguing, it sets up the next book and makes readers want to know exactly what will happen next and get the answers to their questions. I love the page design on the book, there's different designs on some of the pages, and "notes" on others. I also really like the cover. I'll definately check out Book 2, I want to see where finding Amanda leads Callie, Nia, and Hal next and how their friendship grows.
    • 5/5
      Who is Amanda Valentino? Where is she? And how did she get all that money? These are some of the many questions Callie, Hal, and Nia struggle to answer in "Invisible I" The first book of The Amanda Project series. The website is just as good as the book! Although it is only currently available to Beta readers at the moment I definitely suggest that anyone interested in this series take a look once it is public. The Amanda Project has great potential!