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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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 the book‚ issues such as eating disorders
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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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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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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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Titile: Someone Like You Author: Sarah Dessen Date of Publication: 1998 Number Of Pages: 281 I checked out this book titled Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen. I chose this book because I read a different book by Sarah Dessen and well the last book was good and somewhat interesting. But I also chose this book because a friend of mine recommended it to me and because this author writes good girl teen fiction books. The author of this book is named Sarah Dessen and was born in Illinois on 1970
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|1. Title of the book |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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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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****this is more of a journal than a book report*** Response Journal #4: Just Listen By Sarah Dessen From Pages 296 to 371 I thought that this last quarter of the novel‚ Just Listen by Sarah Dessen‚ was a real disappointment‚ in my opinion. First of all‚ when Annabel and Owen parted ways for such along time‚ I was very disappointed. Then‚ on top of that‚ the ending was a cliché‚ because it was too corny and too much of a happy ending. Anyway‚ since I finished reading this novel‚ I have
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