- Pregnancy, Fiction, Unmarried mothers, Friendship
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Sarah Dessen
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Random House, Tandem Library, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606307987
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“Scarlett Thomas has been my best friend for as long as I can remember.”
Sarah Dessen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels for teens, which have received numerous awards and rave reviews. Her books have been published in over thirty countries and have sold millions of copies worldwide. She is the recipient of the 2017 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for outstanding contribution to young adult literature for her novels: Keeping the Moon, Dreamland, This Lullaby, The Truth about Forever, Just Listen, Along for the Ride, and What Happened to Goodbye. Her newest novel, The Rest of the Story, was released in June 2019. An NC native, she currently lives in Chapel Hill with her family. https://sarahdessen.com
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