Sarah Dessen

The novel, “Just Listen,” by Sarah Dessen begins in a town called, Lakeview. Annabel Greene is the main character and is returning to school after a long dramatic summer. The places of the book are a huge part of the story such as, the local pool, Annabel’s high school, and the Anger Management radio station. Each of these locations carries scenes which changed Annabel’s personality in many ways. Annabel is a timid, blue-eyed, blonde-haired teenager. She is always eager to please and is very protective

Imagine being faced with seemingly infinite issues and also just trying to grow up and live a normal life. “Infinity,” by Sarah Dessen, is told from the perspective of a female narrator, in media res. At the time she is a junior in high school. The narrator usually avoids all of her problems and panics in stressful situations. However, she is faced with many tough decisions throughout the story, which in some way she overcame them all. Some of the challenges she faced included rotaries, her relationship

almost be deadly. Sarah Dessen takes us on a journey from heart ache, to mourning, and then to a self destructing relationship. Don’t believe everything you see, it might come back to bite you in the end. Sarah Dessen is the author of the book “Dreamland” and through this book she talks about a struggling high school junior who has all this pressure put on her after her sister ran away. This stress is then relieved when she gets into a toxic relationship with an older boy. Dessen was probably trying

The book, That Summer, by Sarah Dessen is a great coming of age,enjoyable novel to read. Haven,who is fifteen,is going through many harsh changes in her life at the moment. Her parents are getting divorced and her dad is getting remarried and all Haven wants is for her life to be like it use to be. Haven’s so called “soulmate” named Sumner,who she dated last summer,is back at her school. Her dad gets married and Haven does not take it too well.She now realizes that it’s officially over. Her parents

two authors. Ever since her parents divorce, she has a hard time sleeping. In the night, she does whatever and goes wherever her heart desires. The text supports this by saying, “The insomnia started when my parents’ marriage began to fall apart” (Dessen 5). Auden keeps a lot of her emotion in because she is afraid of saying how she feels in the wrong way. She has been sheltered her whole life and hasn’t done any of the normal things that kids or even children do. The text says, “ I’d been a child

some pictures and the things I did. Let 's begin! (All the bloggers/booktubers I mention will be linked at the end!) Friday Friday was educator 's day, but they had an author luncheon that was open to the public. The authors at the luncheon were Sarah Dessen, Ruta Sepetys, and E. Lockhart. I met up with my friend, Avery, to go to the event. As we were sitting in the lobby, we saw Marie Lu walk in and I started freaking out. I wanted to go and ask for a picture, but I was too shy to go up to her. We

author, Sarah Dessen. It was published in 1996 as her first book to be sold. Dessen states, “It was actually the third one I wrote, after a terrible book I did in college and one that was marginally better the year after. I never intended That Summer to be a YA (young adult) book while I was writing it” (Sarah Dessen, n. d.). She then goes on to state how her publisher believed it would be a good book for teenagers, so, she gave it a shot, and allowed it to be published. According to UNCTV, “Sarah Dessen

anything a man could do, and that she did not need to find a husband to rule over Illéa. In closing, Eadlyn Schreave from the book The Crown by Kiera Cass, is an extremely capable young lady. Without question, Haven from the book That Summer By Sarah Dessen is a lonely character. Lonely means that a person is closed off and isolated from other people. One example that Haven is lonely is that her

it’s all set and done they are a whole new person. Sarah Dessen is amazing at using personal experiences and showing real life problems in each of her stories. A common theme in Sarah Dessen’s books is that teenagers are dealing with the change in personality as they go through tragedy or loss. The general themes that run through her novels show isolation, emotional distance in families and a progressive change in people’s personality. Sarah Dessen was

Top Five Favorite Sarah Dessen Novels Sarah Dessen an established contemporary American writer, known for writing realistic fiction under the young adult literature genre, and best known for her ability to make one engage in a reading marathon after reading just one novel by her. 5. That Summer This book is about a girl named Haven that is experiencing a lot of changes in her life but the climax is when Sumner Lee (her sister's ex-boyfriend) shows up in town because she thinks she can get things