March Author of the Month

Sarah Dessen

Along for the Ride Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own

Lock and Key When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.

Listen Annabel Greene seemingly had everything: cool friends, good grades, and a part-time modeling career in town. But it all came crashing down, and Annabel spends the summer in a shaky, self-imposed exile

Truth About Forever The summer following her father's death Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return form camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

Keeping the Moon Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira and trying to explore her sense of self.

That Summer 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.

Someone Like You Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best briend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant and Halley's own first serious relationship