Scarlett was always the strong one, but now it’s Hailey’s turn. The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend. If you’re looking for a read featuring a great friendship, check out Someone Like You. A powerful coming-of-age novel about the power and peril of friendship and first loves, from the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Rest of the Story. The story and characters are so strong that it all works together. Book Review: Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen. There’s the death of Scarlett’s boyfriend, Scarlett’s pregnancy, family issues, and more. The thing that always impresses me about this book is the fact that it deals with so many different issues but doesn’t feel like an “issue book” at all. Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen: 9780142401774 : Books From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend. Seeing Scarlett reappear in later books makes me so happy! Halley and Scarlett’s friendship has stuck with me ever since. It’s also one of the first Dessen books I read. Someone Like You was one of Sarah Dessen’s first books. I can’t believe we’re already on the second to last week of the Summer of Sarah Dessen! Seems fitting that we’re focusing on Sarah’s second book, Someone Like You! My Thoughts: Now Halley has to find the strength to take the lead and help Scarlett get through it.īecause true friendship is a promise you keep forever. Then Scarlett's boyfriend died, and Scarlett learned that she was pregnant. Halley was always content to follow in her wake. It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake-and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo’s spell as well.įor Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her.JHeidi Book Review 1 Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. Someone Like You is the second book written by Sarah Dessen.In combination with That Summer this book was adapted for the movie How to Deal. Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. Select the department you want to search in. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her. : Someone Like You: 9781094107233: Sarah Dessen: Books. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is also divided into two people. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. 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. Edwards Award for her contributions to YA literature, as well as the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. 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. Sarah Dessen is the winner of the Margaret A. A girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl-and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer.Įmma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve.
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