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    Upsetting Annie
    Upsetting Annie
    Upsetting Annie
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    Upsetting Annie

    By Dandi Daley Mackall

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    Annie Lind has a great life until her cousin comes to live with her. Though Annie hopes Shawna can be the sister she never had, she finds instead that her cousin is cuter, smaller, more popular, and a better cheerleader. It will take God’s grace to conquer the green-eyed monster in Book 6 of the Blog On series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780310834403
    Upsetting Annie
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    Dandi Daley Mackall

    Dandi Daley Mackall loves God, children, words, and animals. Her nearly 500 books for children and grown-ups have sold more than four million copies worldwide. She won the ECPA Christian Book Award for Best Children’s Book 2015 and multiple Mom’s Choice Awards, as well as ALA Best Book, NY Public Library Top Pick, Children’s Book Council Award of Excellence, and the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children’s Literature. Her novel My Boyfriends’ Dogs is now a Hallmark Movie. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her family, including horses, dogs, cats, and an occasional squirrel, deer, or raccoon.  

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      Upsetting Annie - Dandi Daley Mackall

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      Other books in the growing Faithgirlz!™ library

      Best Friends Bible

      The Faithgirlz!™ Bible

      NIV Faithgirlz!™ Backpack Bible

      My Faithgirlz!™ Journal

      The Blog On Series

      Grace Notes (Book One)

      Love, Annie (Book Two)

      Just Jazz (Book Three)

      Storm Rising (Book Four)

      Grace Under Pressure (Book Five)

      Nonfiction

      No Boy’s Allowed: Devotions for Girls

      Girlz Rock: Devotions for You

      Chick Chat: More Devotions for Girls

      Shine On, Girl!: Devotions to Keep You Sparkling

      Check out www.faithgirlz.com

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      ZONDERKIDZ

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      Copyright © 2007 by Dandi Daley Mackall

      Illustrations © 2007 by Zondervan

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition August 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-83440-3

      This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Requests for information should be addressed to:

      Zonderkidz

      Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Mackall, Dandi Daley.

      Upsetting Annie / by Dandi Daley Mackall.

                   p. cm. -- (Blog on series ; bk. 6) (Faithgirlz!)

              Summary: Everything seems to be going well for fifteen-year-old Annie, between her popular blog, good friends, and cheerleading, but when her cousin Shawna returns from Paris and becomes the center of attention, Annie cannot help but be jealous.

              ISBN-13: 978-0-310-71264-0

              [1. Blogs--Fiction. 2. Popularity--Fiction. 3. Jealousy--Fiction. 4. Cousins--Fiction. 5. High schools--Fiction. 6. Schools--Fiction. 7. Christian life--Fiction. 8. Ohio--Fiction] I. Title.

              PZ7.M1905Ups 2007

             [Fic]--dc22

      2006020339

      All Scripture quotations unless otherwise noted are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version® . NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan.

      Editor: Barbara Scott

      Illustrator: Julie Speer

      Cover design: Karen Phillips

      Illustrations used in this book were created in Adobe Illustrator.

      The body text for this book is set in Cochin Medium.

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      So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.

      For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

      — 2 Corinthians 4:18

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      THAT ’ S WHAT YOU THINK !

      PROFESSOR LOVE

      MARCH10

      Dear Professor Love,

      Life is SO not fair! My 2 sisters have boyfriends. They’ve always had boyfriends. And when they break up (They always do the breaking. Nobody ever breaks up with them!), they get new boyfriends within the week. They have dates every weekend. The only dates I have are pity dates, when my friends fix me up with their guy friends.I’ve suffered through so many blind dates, my sisters say I should get a guide dog.

      What should I do?

      — Boyfriendless

      Dear Boyfriendless,

      Take a deep breath, girlfriend! I know where you’re coming from because I’ve been there. But I’m working on changing my tune. Why do we think we have 2 have boyfriends? Sounds like your sisters aren’t doing so well in that department if they’re breaking up all the time, right? Maybe you and those friends of yours should stop the blind date train and just go out together. Have fun!Develop friendships with guys. BTW, a date can be the worst place for friendships! And breakups can be the worst thing for friends.

      But maybe your sisters are right about 1 thing. Get a dog — dogs rock!

      Love, Professor Love

      Annie Lind leaned back and admired her work as Professor Love. The whole That’s What You Think! blog team had met at the cottage earlier, like they did most Saturday mornings. Annie had taken up half the time telling them her big news: her cousin Shawna would be coming to Big Lake for the summer. Annie didn’t know if she could wait two whole months.

      Since she still had an hour to kill before cheerleading practice, Annie hung around after the meeting was over. She adored the cottage, with its giant fireplace, wooden beams, and white stucco walls. It belonged to Gracie’s bio mom, who was off in Europe someplace. The cottage was perfect for writing her love advice column.

      She got back to it.

      Dear Professor Love,

      I’m in love with Jennifer. And I totally trust her. It’s just that there are so many guys at my school who wouldlike to have my Jennifer. And she’s so friendly with everybody. I get crazy when I see her talking with some guy by her locker or in the cafeteria or after school. When I can’t find Jen, or I call her and she doesn’t pick up, or I drive by her house and see her car gone, I fly into a jealous rage. I’m afraid my jealousy will drive her away.

      Is it expecting too much for her to let me know where she is at all times?

      — Watchdog

      Annie didn’t even have to think about this one. She set her fingers to the keyboard.

      Dear Watchdog,

      Hmm . . . Is it 2 much 2 expect for you 2 know where Jennifer is at all times? Of course not — as long as she’s in prison. That’s the only way you can be sure where she is every minute.

      Sounds like the problem isn’t Jennifer. It’s you, Watchdog!You’re jealous without cause. I suggest you get a grip.Actually, I suggest you loosen that grip!

      Love, Professor Love

      Dear Professor Love,

      Why is life so unfair? I’m a nice person. I’m not hot, but i’m okay to look at. Still, my whole life it’s seemed like everybody is more popular than i am. When girls hit themall, nobody thinks 2 ask me. I’m left out when they go 2 a game together or just hang out before school. I wish i could trade lives. It’s always been like this. If there are three of us, i’m the odd girl out. Hey — when i was little, i had two imaginary friends. They wouldn’t let me play with them.

      — The unfair maiden

      Annie laughed out loud at that one. Then she typed her answer:

      Dear Maiden,

      Don’t trade places with anyone! Sounds to me as if you have a great sense of humor. (I LOL at your exclusive imaginary friends!)

      Most people in middle school and high school feel like the odd person out. (It’s one of the best kept secrets of high school!) Don’t forget that you’re exactly the person God wants you to be. You think God makes mistakes? No way! Without you, there would be a hole in the universe!

      Love, Professor Love

      Annie stopped typing and glanced through the rest of the e-mails in her Professor Love pile. There was a question —more like a gripe — from a kid who studied hard for B’s, while his brother got A’s without studying. Somebody who called herself Two-Ton began her e-mail with the same two words that kept popping up: No fair!

      Gracie! Annie shouted. She had to see this. Annie scrolled down and found another e-mail complaining about life’s unfairness. Gracie! I think I’ve got our blog theme!

      That did it. Annie heard the squeak of chair legs on the wood floor, followed by Gracie’s footsteps overhead.

      You better not be playing me, Prof, Gracie warned, bounding down the stairs two at a time. In seconds, she was reading over Annie’s shoulder. I’d just about given up on a theme.

      When they’d ended the blog meeting, Gracie’s instructions had been for everybody to write their columns, and she’d figure out a theme later. Several months

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