So this is the book I am currently reading... What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen. I love Sarah Dessen and I have all but two of her books to date. Probably my favorite thing about her is how she takes elements from other books she has written and puts them into her newer books. Nothing major, just a character here or a town there. Its fun as an avid reader to pick those out. This book is about a girl whose parents seemed to have a picture perfect marriage until her mom left, got remarried and had twins. Mclean feels like she has been replaced and so struggles with her relationship with her mother. She is also involved in trying to figure out who she really is. Her dad moves around a lot for work and she moves with him. To every new school she attends, she uses a different version of her middle name 'Elizabeth' to create a new alias for herself from peppy rah rah to drama queen. Sarah Dessen is such a good teen writer and so good at creating realistic characters with realistic problems to which readers can easily connect.
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