Someone Like You

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Summary: Must Teen Read!!
Review: Although I am now 20 and was required to read this book for a young adults literature course, all of my teen years came back to me while reading this. The pressures of drugs,sex,death and first loves are told with truth by 15/16 year old Halley. The feelings that were felt by Halley and her best friend Scarlett are feelings that typical teenagers feel. I just know that if I would have read this book when I was 16 my teen years might have made a little more sense. To see other people going through the same things in your teen years helps you cope..So I recommend this book for teenage girls, its very easy to read and to relate to.

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Summary: Someone Like You
Review: In Someone Like You, I have already read about the hardships of teenage pregnancy and the mournings over a dead friend. Although I am only on the seventy-fifth page and I already have an idea as to what the message is. This book is really great for teenagers that are going through tough times. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an open heart and mind.

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Summary: A really great book for teens
Review: This book is so good. It grabs you right at the beginning when Halley is at camp and she receives a call in the middle of the night from her best friend, Scarlett, telling her that Scarlett's boyfriend Michael has died. As the book continues, they find out that Scarlett is pregnant with Michael's baby, and Halley starts a relationship with Micheal's best friend, Macon. The book is about friendship, teenage pregnacies, relationships, dealing with school, and all the things teens deal with in real life. It's a really fantastic book.

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Summary: LOVE IT
Review: This book was one of the best books I have ever read! I read the whole thing in a couple of hours, and loved it! I was sad when it ended! I wish there was a sequal! I can relate to it soo well, and many other teenagers can too! It is about best friends and first loves and the struggles of growing up! If you haven't read it, you NEED to! :)

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Summary: Someone Like You
Review: The book Someone Like You written by Sarah Dessan is the best book that I have ever read. The main characters are Halley, the narrator, and Scarlett, Halley's best friend. They have problems with boys throughout the novel, but they still are friends.
The main event in the story was Scarlett's pregnancy. The father, Michael, got killed in an accident on his motorcycle the day after she gotten pregnant. Scarlett told Halley in September, a month after, when she was sure she was pregnant. Her mother wanted her to have an abortion, but she decided to keep it. That was the most interesting part of the plot throughout the whole book.
On the first day of school, Halley had met Macon, who was the popular guy. He wanted to be friends with her. Soon they became boyfriend and girlfriend, and were really close. Halley's mother didn't want her to see him, so she had to sneak out to meet him after school.
One day, Macon wanted to go "all the way" with her but she said she didn't want to end up like Scarlett. On New Years Eve, Halley went to a party with him and got drunk. Macon tried to go "all the way" with her again, but she rejected him because she got sick. When he drove her home after the party, he was so upset because she didn't go "all the way" that they got into a car crash. They lived, but Halley was very injured. Also in the middle of the book, Halley's grandmother was sick in the hospital, and Halley had to go see her.
The literature element that the author used was imagery, mood, setting, suspense, and surprise ending. I can't say why it's a surprise ending, but it's a very good ending. The imagery is when she tells what is happening around her, you can get an image The suspense is what makes you want to read the book every second. The mood is my favorite because she tells how the characters feel. The setting was good because she always told you were she was in the book.
The book was one of the best books that I have ever read before. The book also makes you wonder what's going to happen again. I would suggest this book to anyone that likes to read about this. If this was a real book, I would feel bad for Halley and Scarlett because they have to deal with these kinds of problems.

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Summary: Sarah Dessen Strikes Again!
Review: Sarah Dessen stirkes again with this tear-jerking novel about two best friends' journey through one's pregnancy, while the other goes through the ups and downs of having a new boyfriend....a troublemaker at that. It keeps any reader hooked up to the very last word! Dessen is one of my favorite authors, and I highly suggest that if you have read this book and liked it, to read her other books as well. They are all just as good as the next! Two-thumbs up for Sarah Dessen's "Someone Like You".

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Summary: Summary and Review by Nancy, Jennifer, and Nikki
Review: This novel is a coming of age tale about two friends facing the challenges of becoming adults. The main characters, Halley and Scarlett, discover their friendship can survive not only the fun and games of adolescence, but the trials and hardships as well. Told from Halley's point of view, this story takes the reader through the happiness and heartache of love and loss. Dessen carries the reader through a journey with the characters as they travel from the world of childhood down the long road to adulthood. Dessen does a superb job of looking through the eyes of a teenage girl. Without forcing a moral on the reader, Dessen addresses many moral issues related to today's teenage life. The story tackles issues such as heartache, premature death, single parenthood, teenage pregnancy, parent/child relationships, premarital sex, alcohol, drugs, and many more. This novel is appropriate for mature readers from grades ten and above. The book is entertaining and interesting; however discretion should be used when dealing with certain age groups. Young adults and adults alike will enjoy this novel.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: i think this book was great and it really relates to all teenage girls because friendship is very important i mean i dont know what i would do without my best friend.This book is about a girl(Halley) who never really did anything bad but one summer its like evrything goes wrong.Her best friend Scarlett is in a major dillemma after her boyfriend(Michael) dies in a motorcycle accident and then later on finds out she is pregnant with his baby.Macon Faulkner was Michael's best friend and is basically a trouble maker that Halley starts goin out with.they date for 3 months and he starts wanting to have sex with her but she isnt ready.everything is getting messed up.she is getting grounded constantly and always in trouble.but to find out more do yourself a favor and read this AWESOME book! And like it says on the cover "Anyone who's ever had a best friend --- or a first love -- will understand" and its SO true

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Summary: Someone Like You
Review: This book was soooo good- one of the best novels i've read in a while. this book is about two best friends, Halley and Scarlett, who stay together thru thick and thin. One day, Scarlett's boyfriend dies, and a couple months later, she finds out she's pregnant with his baby! Later on Halley starts going out with troublemaker Macon Faulkner. He pressures her into sleeping with him... what will happen next???????
THIS IS AN AWESOME BOOK, every teen should read it. :)

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Summary: Another delicious book by Dessen
Review: Someone like You is like all other books by Dessen great! Teen Pregnancy and true loves. A book about decisions and how they can turn out good or bad. Dessen has made a great book like always. I loved this book because how well everyone can relate to it in anyway form the strong relationship Halley and Scarlett or to the death of a boyfriend, it doesnt matter everyone can relate! You fall in love with Macon as Halley does but you also feel Scarletts concern. Macon is the wild boy you have always wanted, the one the doesnt say much at school, the misterious one you always think back and try to find out how you met, he is the one you all wanted but you never knew what he really did you only heard. A great and wonderful read that everyone should get there hands on sometime soon if you havn't.