- Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Weddings, Sisters in fiction
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Sarah Dessen, Sarah Dessen
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 198
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781094107455
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“The day my father got remarried, my mother was up at six A.M. defrosting the refrigerator.”
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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