Dessen has built a well-deserved reputation for delicately depicting teen girls in turmoil. Her latest title showcases a socially awkward young woman who seeks solace in the comforting rigidity of academic success. Auden is about to start college in the fall, and decides to escape her control-freak professor mom to spend the summer with her novelist father, his new young wife, and their brand-new baby daughter, Thisbe. Over the course of the summer, Auden tackles many new projects...
This book tells the tale of 17 year old Ruby Cooper who has been abandoned by her mother, and must now live with her older sister, Cora and her husband Jamie who enrol her into private school. Having an unsettled past, Ruby is scared she won’t fit in. Then there’s Nate, the good guy, however he has a problem of his own – his father. Together Nate & Ruby confide and support each other in their own unique way.
Macy's summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development. But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or . . . Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes...
