Sarah Dessen
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Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable ... until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family that she hasn't seen since she was a little girl. When Emma arrives...
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When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
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2015.
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Sydney's charismatic older brother Peyton has always been the center of attention in the family, but when he's sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
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Sarah Dessen's best-selling novels for young adults have been recognized by the ALA as Best Books on multiple occasions. Keeping the Moon is the story of a formerly overweight 15-year-old girl named Colie who spends a summer with her eccentric aunt in North Carolina. There, she makes some surprising new friends who help her to see the world in new ways and accept herself for who she is.
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Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough. Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby....
10) That Summer
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The debut novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Rest of the Story!
The more things change...
As far as Haven is concerned, there's just too much going on.
Everything is changing, and she's not sure where she fits in. Her father is getting married to the local weather woman. Her sister Ashley is engaged to a man who's just...boring. And Haven, at 15, is nearly six feet tall and still growing.
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11) Someone Like You
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A powerful coming-of-age novel about the power and peril of friendship and first loves, from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Rest of the Story.
The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend.
Scarlett was always the strong one, but now it’s Hailey’s turn.
In the wake of Scarlett’s boyfriend death and learning she’s pregnant, Scarlett needs a friend more than ever.
Because true friendship...
12) Just Listen
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From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Rest of the Story comes a moving novel about the power of finding and speaking your truth.
When she's modeling, Annabel Greene is the picture of perfection-the girl who has everything.
But her real life is far from perfect. Her best friend Sophie and she are no longer speaking; her older sister's eating disorder is affecting everything at home.
Then she meets Owen....
13) Dreamland
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Sarah Dessen delivers a riveting tale of a confused teen languishing in a destructive relationship. Mesmerized by the affluent Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin O'Koren abandons parents and friends for the seductive lure of his exciting yet dangerous world. But the pain of Rogerson's controlling rage soon shatters the pleasure of their romance. Trapped in a dizzying maelstrom of abuse, Caitlin seeks the solace of a drug-induced dreamland. "Another pitch-perfect...