What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (spoilers)

[ashen0521]

This book is great unless you are looking for tons of make out/ explicit scenes. It is in the young adult genre, but I believe it would be more aimed at tweens rather than older teens. Some people may learn more about self identity and how to be yourself and why being yourself is important by reading this book because that is exactly what the main character does. After her parents get divorced Mclean struggles with being her true self and just wants to start over... Which she does every time she moves. Finally, she moves to Lakeview and plans to reinvent herself, but soon finds that its not going to be that easy and ends up being herself again. To me this is a inspirational book that I believe a lot of tween or teens would benefit from in my area.

[its_hopeeee]

Love love love this one. One of my all time favorites. I knew it was going to be good when she finally decided to be called Mclean instead of an alternative. I love how it had kind of an agonizing twist: her mother marrying the coach of the team her dad loves (the team that her father names Mclean after). This making her dad hate the team that he has loved for such a long time. I think the boy that lives next door was the most important person in the entire thing for me. Especially after he followed her to that motel, but instead of going in, he called her parents because he knew she should be surrounded by the most important people in her life. And I LOVE how she finds out that he went there by the bracelet he got as a souvenir, not knowing it would mean much to Mclean. And when her dad's girlfriend takes over the restaurant, and he was happy, that made me so happy. Great ending, and strong story line that kept me going.

[ejcogan]

I've never heard of this book. It does sound inspirational. I am always trying to teach my kids to just be themselves. I'm going to read this one and if it's appropriate, pass it on to my daughter. Thanks for posting this! I'm always looking for something with life lessons to have my daughter read in between her sci-fi and fantasy books.