The book Dreamland‚ by author Sarah Dessen‚ is not exactly what the title seems to be. The first thing I thought of when hearing the title was a girl lost in a dream finding people and magic and waking up into reality. You may or may not have had the same thoughts as I had but let me tell you one thing: that is not it at all. Instead it is a book about a girl‚ Caitlin‚ trying to escape her old self and find her new self with her new boyfriend‚ Rogerson. This perfect relationship soon goes wrong when
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That Summer The book “That Summer” by Sarah Dessen is a book about the relationship between two sisters‚ who have their struggles but come together in the end more as friends than as a family member. Haven is just another teenage girl that doesn’t agree with what her body looks like and tries her hardest to either be noticed by the guy she likes or hide in the crowd from the girls she wants to avoid. Haven is six feet tall her freshman year and lives in the shadow of her twenty-one year old sister
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love‚ abandon their loved ones. Author Sarah Dessen portrays many themes and subjects in her works‚ most of which include love‚ friendship‚ romance‚ and abandonment. One of Dessen’s works is Lock and Key‚ where Dessen’s story telling method fits the feel of the story‚ allowing it to move forward as Ruby lives day by day but still clings to her past. It’s a thought provoking and intelligent story about all kinds of relationships and love. Another novel by Dessen is Along for the Ride which is also about
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Keeping the moon by Sarah Dessen‚ is a novel about a girl named Colie sparks who‚ at the beginning of the book‚ is an unconfident 15-year-old who looks upon herself as a loser. Since her mother‚ who is basically‚ fitness celebrity kiki sparks‚ is touring in Europe for the summer‚ Colie has to spend her summer in Colby‚ California‚ with her aunt Mira. In Colie’s past she was very overweight‚ and made fun of because of it. When coming to Colby‚ Colie makes new friends‚ and experiences things that help
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In the book Dreamland Sarah Dessen explores and illustrates physical abuse and loving someone so much that you can not leave. Catlin O’Koren shows many signs of getting abused such as bruises‚ feeling mentally drained and using drugs to escape the pain. By the middle of the book Catlin’s friend Rina suspects something is wrong with Catlin but says nothing because she feels it might ruin their friendship. Catlin then becomes emotionally and physically attached to Rogerson‚ and if she ever if late
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|Lock and Key | |2. Author of the book |Sarah Dessen | |3. In one sentence say how you came to read |I had already read a book of Sarah Dessen and I liked her writing style so I wanted to read| |this book. |another book of her.
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Throughout the last couple of weeks‚ I finished Sarah Dessen’s What Happened to Goodbye‚ which was 402 pages long. I also started Sarah Dessen’s Keeping the Moon and I am currently on page 211. What Happened to Goodbye ended with McLean and her friends building a model for the city and in the process of doing so‚ her friends found out about all of her previous identities. They forgave her right away but were curious what made her choose to live her life like that. As promised to her mother to avoid
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“‘Make your new year the best one yet… ‘It’s time to go back to school” (Dessen 3). This book is all about having new experiences and loving what life has to offer you. The main character‚ Annabel Greene‚ has been through many different experiences‚ ranging from really good‚ to unfortunately‚ really bad. Annabel has two older sisters named Kristen and Whitney‚ who all share one thing in common. They all used to model. Obviously modeling is very competitive and comes along with lots of risks. Throughout
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Just Listen (2006) is a novel written by teen-author Sarah Dessen. It is her seventh published novel. Plot summary Annabel Greene is a girl who has it all - at least‚ that’s how it seems on TV commercials. Annabel’s life is far from perfect. Though‚ some thought that Annabel had everything people often forgot that what she wanted most was to live a normal life. Her friendship with the cruel‚ dramatic Sophie ended on a night she can’t bear to remember; her sister Whitney moves back home because
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Plot Summary In the novel Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen‚ you are taken through a tour of the life of Auden West. Auden was born into a family of writers who want their daughter to be the best of the best. She is a quiet girl who lived with her mother after her parents’ divorce‚ devoting herself to schoolwork in order to please her perfectionist mother. Along the way‚ she realizes she lost most of her childhood because her parents treat her as an adult‚ since she was young and she never cared
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