Sarah Dessen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mclean begins to lose sight of who she really is after she tries to reinvent herself at each school she attends after her parents' divorce and her father moves her from town to town.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Author
Publisher
Viking Juvenile
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is 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.
9) This Lullaby
Author
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a romance novelist and a hippie singer, Remy harbors no illusions about love. It comes and goes, she tells herself as she keeps up the active dating life. But this time it seems different, as Remy's new rocker boyfriend shakes her convictions.
10) Keeping the Moon
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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. "Dessen is an absolutely wonderful writer-stylish, smart, and...
11) Dreamland
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Sarah Dessen-New York Times best-selling author of Just Listen-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...