Amy Timeline and Summary

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Amy Timeline and Summary

  • Everything we know about Amy we learn from her diary since she's dead when the book opens.
  • Amy is born to a single mom.
  • She lives in California near her cousin, Dani, until her mother dies of heart failure.
  • Amy moves to Raynesville with Grammie, where she doesn't exactly fit in.
  • She develops an intense crush on Jake West and writes about him obsessively in her diary.
  • One day, Amy overhears Jake saying he "prefers a little less girl" (18.11).
  • Amy brushes off Jake's snub but decides to start exercising and eating better.
  • She's invited to the Bus by the popular kids, but gets attacked while playing the Game.
  • She also starts an affair with her teacher, Mr. Dermott.
  • At the end of her junior year of high school, Amy decides that she's going to tell the school board exactly what Mr. Dermott has been doing.
  • Mr. Dermott follows Amy in her car to try to stop her and watches as she drives off the road over a cliff and dies.
  • Amy's death is ruled a suicide.
  • Amy's diary and paintings help her cousin, Dani, find out the truth about her death.