Description: Award-winning author Sarah Dessen's compulsively readable books for teens present audiences with believable situations and beautifully drawn characters that strike chords in listeners' hearts. 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 an active dating life. But this time it seems different, as Remy's new rocker boyfriend shakes her convictions. "This modern-day romance narrated by a cynical heroine offers a balance of wickedly funny moments and universal teen traumas."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
Brief description:
Sarah Dessen is the author of more than a dozen novels, including What Happened to Goodbye, a New York Times bestseller. Her first two books, That Summer and Someone Like You, were made into the movie How to Deal. Her books are frequently chosen for the top-ten list for teens and young adults. She is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contributions to young-adult literature and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. She graduated with highest honors in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.