Title- Someone like you
Author- Sarah Dessen
Pages- 281
Publisher-Puffin books
I found this book from the library and because Arilee Demakis recommended it to me.
Summary- Someone like you is a typical teenager story. Scartlett and halley are best friend who live right by each other and support each other whenever it is needed. Scarlett fell in love during the summer and got pregnant.. As you reads on you find out that the father of her baby dies in a motorcycle accident. Scartlett has to decide how to tell her dead boyfriends mother and if she even wants to keep the baby. Not on is scarlet going though a rough time, her best friend Halley just got her first boyfriend. You read about how Halley is sneaking out at night and disobeying her mom when she told her to stop seeing him. The story explains how a teenage girl acts while she is in high school and being told what to do.
The audience for this book is definitely teenage girls.
The authors writing style has a sense of humor to it. It’s serious when it needs to be, but it has a sarcastic humor that makes the book worth reading on. Sarah writes the novel in a romantic comedy style.“Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend” (pg 23) I love this quote. I believe it’s so true. I think you are much better off when you have a best friend; you always need someone there for you.“You can’t just turn your heart off like a faucet. You have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.” (pg 20)This quote just shows that when you’re really in love there’s nothing you can do about it. You can just fall out of love as easily as you in fell into it.
" We were adjusting to the pregnancy, we had no choice" I really liked this quote because throughout the novel whenever they talk about Scarlett having the baby they always include halley too. It just shows how they were such good friends
There were many parts of the novel that stuck out to me. I was so excited to hear that Scarlet, even though her boyfriend has died, was doing to keep the baby. I couldn’t relate with anything that had to do with Scarlett but I definitely could with Halley. I related by hating my mom when she tells me what to do and tries to control me.
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This book is the typical story of teenage girls in high school. The idea of sneaking out in high school to hangout with a boy is really relatable and true. In South Hadley, a girl getting pregnant is definitely true but in most places a teenage girl getting pregnant is a little abnormal. I like how this book sounds and will probably read it.
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