Invisible I (The Amanda Project, #1)

Invisible I (The Amanda Project #1)

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Mysterious, charismatic, and one of a kind—the only way to find Amanda is to think like Amanda.

When enigmatic freshman Amanda Valentino arrived at Endeavor High, she chose three people— Callie, Hal, and Nia—to guide her through the choppy waters of her new school. Except she didn't tell them about each other. When Amanda leaves, the three must reluctantly work together t

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Hardcover, 292 pages
Published September 22nd 2009 by HarperTeen
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Mirabelle
I found myself at the bookstore yesterday looking for a good stand-alone book to read. I found this one. I liked the cover and the plot intrigued me, so I bought it.

By the first page, I was already irked. One of my pet-peeves is designer label dropping. Urg. I just can't explain how much this annoys me. Let me tell you, there was plenty of label dropping. 'She opened her COACH bag', etc. oh, and 'she watched a REESE WITHERSPOON movie'. Current pop-culture references irk me too.. haha

That was jus...more
Rene Kirkpatrick
I have to tell you that I really wasn't expecting to like this as much as I did! A girl moves into town and starts at a new school. She makes a friend. Or two, or three. and then she disappears. All three of the people she makes friends with are certain they are her ONLY friend. When she disappears, the principal calls them all in to the office to find out what they know- Of course, they don't know why the others are in the office. It doesn't take too long for them to begin to get suspicious and...more
El Templo de las Mil Puertas
"Amanda ha desaparecido y ha dejado un reguero de pistas y mentiras a su paso. De pronto, tres jóvenes (Callie, Hal y Nia) que no parecen tener nada en común, se ven envueltos en un juego que ninguno ha buscado y que tampoco entiende… La protagonista del primer volumen de esta peculiar octología (sí, sí, ocho volúmenes, amigos) se llama Callie. Desde hace meses intenta mantener en orden su idílica realidad en el instituto mientras su vida familiar se desmorona: su madre desapareció hace meses si...more
Charlotte Jones
I recently joined Wattpad when it was introduced to me by Brian Kayser, author of The Curse of Europa, and I have to say, as I am only just really getting into eBooks, I didn’t think I’d use it. However, this popped up as a recommended read on the home page, and I have to say, I was instantly intrigued.

I found the writing style in this book amazing, it flowed really well and was never too slow. I managed to finish this in one sitting (which is highly unusual for me)! The plot of the book was int...more
Isaias
Sinceramente yo habia comprado el libro por tener un precio economico y queria comprar algun libro que no haya planeado antes de mano comprar. Su linda portada hizo que lo compre en la libreria apenas lo vi.
Sin embargo, esperaba encontrarme con una historia mas infantil y dinamica, ya que ya habia escuchado de la famosa pagina del "Proyecto Amanda" (la cual parece que fue cerrada, una pena). Pero me sorprendi de como me enganche con el libro.
La historia gira en torno a Callie, Hal y Nia, tres ad...more
Mary Diaz
Es una novela que me sorprendió gratamente. Me ha gustado el argumento que maneja y sobre todo como se van desarrollando los hechos. Amanda es el personaje central de la novela y a pesar de eso es un completo misterio. Un misterio total.

A parte de Amanda hay otros tres personajes que se podrían considerar centrales. Son los tres amigos con los que más convivió Amanda y aún así ellos no eran amigos entre sí, entonces ¿como era que Amanda podía estar con los tres sin que ellos lo supieran? Pues e...more
Amanda N.
I think working at a library has reverted me back to a teenager because it seems that all I enjoy reading now are YA novels and self-help or memoirs. Anyway...

The Amanda Project is pretty cool. In all honesty, I really only picked it up because I saw that the title had my name in it. Whatever, I'm narcissistic.

I expected it to be a light and fluffy read. And it was - I finished it pretty quickly. The writing was clear and concise. It was definitely from a teenage girl perspective. But I was sur...more
Varina
I read this book for a class in Technology and youth librarianship. The book has a tie-in website, which is incorporated in the text of the book where readers can write characters and vignettes that could be incorporated into books later in the series, and participate in other story aspects. The website and collaborative creation is very cool, well done, and interesting in a lot of ways, but I have the feeling that without the nifty "new media" hook this book wouldn't have been published. it's p...more
Vicky
Summary from the book: When enigmatic high schooler Amanda Valentino disappears, her friends vow to find her, but...they realize they thought they knew about her was false. At the website, readers can write stories, post art, share theories about Amanda, design and buy clothing and accessories.

And therein lies the rub. When I first started reading the story, I was intrigued by the mystery, not only who is Amanda, but what happened to Callie's mother, why was Bea so important and what was going o...more
Nikki
I love a good mystery, so I just ate this book up! Something about the clues throughout reminded me a bit of The Westing Game, which I adore. It was fluff and I had issues with some of the writing (eg. felt the main character, an otherwise intelligent girl, was sometimes dense simply for the sake of exposition) but it was an all around good read.

Especially intrigued by the missing character, Amanda Valentino, who is crazy smart (emphasis on crazy?) and creative. She's got this great schizophreni...more
Christi
Summary: Callie Leary is not friends with Nia and Hal, but the three are thrown together to be guides for Amanda who has mysteriously disappeared and left them with nothing but strange clues including the vice principal’s car covered in a rainbow of colorful drawings and symbols. They didn’t realize that Amanda had befriended each of them separately and they all have a different story of who Amanda really is. As part of a series, The Amanda Project attempts to figure out who is Amanda and where...more
Lee
Although this high school mystery poses more questions than it answers, this is a good read for anyone who is after something a little bit different in their teen novel. It's a collaborative project (which took me a bit of Googling to figure out) between multiple authors working under the alias Stella Lennon, and there is also an interactive website where you can sign up and contribute your own stories. It's an interesting way to blur the boundaries between the reader and the author, and I think...more
Sarai
Product Description

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 cl...more
GirlwiththeBraids
Amanda Valentino is a freak. Everyone in the ninth grade knows it and her clothes, wigs, temporary tattoos, and even her school grades prove it. Amanda is the new girl at Endeavor High, who just happened to arrive on Halloween. No one wants to be seen with her, especially Callie, one of the popular I-girls. She doesn’t want to admit that she has a friendship with Amanda but when Amanda disappears and leaves clues behind for her, that’s a hard thing to keep secret. When Callie finds out two other...more
Jake Rideout
I was a little dubious about this at first. It sounded an awful lot like Paper Towns by John Green: girl commits wild act of vandalism, girl disappears, friends don't know what happened to girl and have to follow clues to find her. Beyond these basic plot points, though, Invisible i is nothing like Paper Towns. For a start, the main character, Callie, is a "mean girl" type who is hiding all the abnormal things about herself in order to fit in with the popular crowd. When her secret friend Amanda...more
Nian
Jan 24, 2010 Nian rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2010
I picked up this book because I thought it was the newest book by one of my more beloved authors, Melissa Kantor, and was really surprised when the book cover credited Stella Lennon. So I thought, "Did I pick up the wrong book? And who the heck is Stella Lennon?" After much Googling, I realized that Stella Lennon was just an alias. Kantor actually DID write this book; it's just that the Amanda Project is a series, and the next two books are written by different authors that they all decided to j...more
Charlotte Phillips
The book kind of reminded me of a cheap imitation of the pretty little liars series, where there are a group of people all connected together by one person. The only difference with this series is that the group are not close friends and the girl is not dead, she is missing. I think right from the beginning I could tell that this was going to annoy me because it didn't really seem to scream hey Im unique, come read me instead. Instead it seemed to say, hey Ive run out of ideas, erm here's someth...more
Miranda
There was a lot of potential for The Amanda Project but it just didn’t come together. I was intrigued by the plot and some of the plot points the story introduced, but there was a lot of stuff that kept it from being anything remarkable. The first major thing was the writing; it was very passive and there was a whole lot of telling and not showing. Whenever the main character Callie reacted to something, she would describe it as such: “What he just said made my stomach turn and I felt sick and n...more
Cathy
The Amanda Project has a very commercial/trendy feel, but after I got 1/4 into it I started to get really absorbed. I can't say I always knew all the details that were going on, like which note had been picked up etc., but the general plot and characters. Mostly the characters were interesting as it's another rich mean girls get away with everything and eventually get their comeupance. What I liked were Hal, Nia and Callie. Artistic Hal, always trying to keep the peace between Nia and Callie. An...more
Boof
What a quirky little book this is! I had great fun reading it. It even has its own website – yeah it’s aimed at teenagers but I still had a blast reading it.

Invisible I is the first book in The Amanda Project series. It starts with three pupils – Callie, Hal and Nia who are all in the same grade but have nothing in common – being summoned to the Principals office and accused of knowing where Amanda Valentino has disappeared to. They all claim ignorance to even knowing Amanda but it turns out tha...more
Erica
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 re...more
Bethany
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Debbie
Book one in the Amanda Project series.

Amanda Valentino is the new girl in school. She tells Callie that she moves around a lot. In order to quickly feel like a part of any new school, Amanda chooses one student to be her guide. Callie feels honored and special to be chosen as a friend by the charismatic Amanda.

When she is called to the office because of one of Amanda's pranks, she is faced with two other students, Nia and Hal, who also thought they were Amanda's only guides. The three, who have...more
Kimathy
Jun 19, 2011 Kimathy rated it 3 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition Recommends it for: 10 year olds
No exceptional writing. A very shallow main character. It's stereotypical. Frankly, if the mystery wasn't so intriguing I would give this book a one. But the mystery is so good! >.< I just wanna know what happened to Amanda!

My problems with this book:

1.written for 10 year olds. But for high schoolers.
2. Freshman are not that cool. No matter how much they think they are.
3. The I-Gilrs? Seriously?
4. Way to cliche.
5. Way to many "like"'s, "totally"'s , and "Not to be a snob, but"'s.
6. Calli...more
Catalina Sennett
I really like the idea of this book. It gets the readers involved in a lot of ways. You read the books, you log on to the website, create a profile and join the fictional world of Amanda. You get to share your stories about amanda and where you think she is, and all your other thoughts on the clues and hints.

Amanda is a new girl in Orion, Maryland(fictional town) She has best friends, whom she calls her guides, but they know nothing about each other! When Amanda dissapears, three of those best...more
Tori
In this book, The Amanda Project, these three teenagers all have a best friend named Amanda. Amanda is this super cool, everyone wants to be her, but also totally free spirited and speaks her mind chick. The thing is that the three kids didn't know Amanda was also good friends with the others. Amanda suddenly goes missing, leaving behind a trial of clues to who knows where, brining the three teens together.

Anyways, I thought that background was neccessary because it is hard to tell what this boo...more
Trisha W.
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 the...more
Clarabel
C'est un bon roman à suspense, mais un peu long à démarrer. Dans ce premier tome, la narratrice s'est achetée sa popularité à force de mensonges et autres futilités, sauf qu'il semblerait que la mascarade a assez duré. La disparition d'Amanda est aussi l'élément déclencheur de sa remise en question, puisque celle-ci aurait joué plusieurs rôles selon les personnes avec qui elle traînait. Ils sont donc trois camarades à vouloir tirer au clair cette énigme, ils ne se connaissaient pas et ne s'appré...more
Burçak :)
Okuldayken telefondan girdiğim için yorum yapamadım geç oldu kusura bakmayın :)

Amanda gittiği okulda birbirinden habersiz 3 kişiyle arkadaş olup onların hayatını yoluna sokar ve ansızın ortadan kaybolur.. Ve Amanda giderken bir takım işler çevirir olaylarda bu 3 kişinin başına yıkılır.. Ve birarada düşünemeyeceğiniz bu tipler birlik olup Amanda'nın bıraktığı ipuçlarını kullanarak aramaya koyulurlar.. Kitabı sevmedim ama ben.. Artık okul içinde geçen havalı, ezik tipli öğrencilerin sürtüşmesinden...more
Ashley - Book Labyrinth
I really did enjoy this book. I heard about the website a few months ago, so when I found the book at the library I had to check it out. The website aspect confuses me a little bit - how much do the "characters" online change what's happening in the plot of the book series? But ignoring the online aspect, the book itself is quite good. There's lots of twists and turns, and I found the main trio likable for the most part (especially once Callie realizes who her true friends are). Amanda is just.....more
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