Amy Timeline and Summary
MoreAmy 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.