Looking for JJ is a Young Adult novel by Anne Cassidy. The novel is split into four parts and roughly follows the lives of those involved and the aftermath of an event that happened seven years prior: the violent murder of Michelle Livingstone by her best friend, Jennifer Jones, both girls only ten years old at the time. Now it's coming up to the end of Jennifer Jones' prison sentence, and the media are having a field day: painting JJ an evil convicted killer and an imminent danger to all children about to be set loose on the world. Like everybody else, seventeen-year-old Alice Tully follows the papers intently. However, unlike everyone else, she knows ...  Read the complete review

Looking for JJ, looking for a new life, looking for a new start where no one knows her past, or her background, she’s changed; she doesn’t know what overcame her to kill her. “Three children walked away from the cottages on the edge of town towards Berwick waters. Later that day, only two of them come back…” Jennifer Jones has been in prison for the last six years for murdering a girl who was bossy, and b***hy. Jennifer didn’t mean to, she remembers everything, and has been in deep guilt for the past years. She doesn’t need papers, or prison to make her feel the guilt of it all, she already has it lumbered upon her back. That one spring day, where ...  Read the complete review

Looking for jj is a brillantly written novel, exploring the life of 16 year old Alice Tully who is trying to start a new life spite the guilt after serving jail for five and a half years for murdering her best friend when she was 10. The book is split up into 4 parts, going back also to her child hood with a disfuctional mother with an array of boyfriends, and the present where Alice, her probation oficer Jill and Rosie are trying to keep her Alice's past a secret in oder to protect her from the british press and the public. As a 13 yr old book lover I find the childrens section a bit boring and ofden read from the young adults section. But apon reading ...  Read the complete review

Looking for jj is an excellent novel written by Ann Cassidy. It follows a teenage girl that has just left prison for commuting a violent crime at a very young age. She killed her best friend that stopped speaking to her because her mother was a Glamour Model. She has a new identity and is trying to start a new life and put the past behind her. The story goes back and forward between the years leading up to the incident and post jail life. Throughout the book she fears she will be recognized and people will know who she is and what she did. You learn alot how families lifestyle and jealousy can have a bad affect on young kids and cause them to do bad ...  Read the complete review