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Someone Like You / Keeping the Moon Flip Book

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Growing up and acknowledging that you are different from all the other girls your age is never easy, especially for Collie Sparks. Collie has spent most of her fifteen years moving from town to town, with her unbalanced and extremely hyper mother. Establishing friendships never came naturally for Collie. She was thought of as an outcast, due to her jet-black hair, lip piercing, and being overweight. Collie learned how to find comfort, from the cruelty of her peers, in food. When Collie's mom becomes obsessed with aerobics and begins producing infomercials, Collie has no choice but to lose weight too. Sadly enough, even after Collie loses 45 pounds, she is still unhappy with her image and lacks self-esteem. Collie's mom is offered a job touring Europe on an "anti-fat crusade." Consequently, Collie is sent to her aunt Mira's rural North Carolina town for the summer. She begins waiting tables at a local restaurant, and becomes great friends with Isabel and Morgan, two of her coworkers. Isabel and Morgan spend the summer teaching Collie that she is a beautiful person, both inside and out, and that she should not let anyone tell her differently.

Both of these stories about teenaged girls, Halley & Scarlett in "Someone like you" and Colie in "Keeping the moon" held me captive. Sarah Dessens writing is refreshingly honest, and she is a highly respected writer for the genre. Ive never seen a bad review of her writing. I identified so well with all of these characters on some level. I was never pregnant, but one of my best friends was. These books suck you right in.

I highly recommend you buying this! I am glad I did.

Being 16 and pregnant would be quit the roadblock in a young girls life. Without a good friend it would be hard to handle on your own. That's what this book is all about! That's the plot and the message of this book.

In this book Halley and Scarlett are best friends. Scarlett ends up getting pregnant wither boyfriend, Michael Sherwood. To put the icing on the cake, Michael dies in a horrible motorcycling accident, leaving Scarlett alone to defend for her self. But Halley never leaves Scarlett's side. They have their ups and downs but they stick together throughout the whole book; dealing with death, boys for Halley, high school and life.

My favorite part of the book is when Sarah Dessen goes in-depth on Halley and Macon's (Halley's boyfriend) relationship. Even though they did some things, they were fun and interesting to read about. Her description showed real life emotions and feelings of teenagers. There was romance, love, fighting, and relationships.

The message of this book is, you can't live without friends. Without friends, life sucks. Friends make life fun, interesting, and they make life easier. So be nice to people and make friends. Maybe you will get lucky enough to find a best friend. Also to wait to have kids till after you get done with high school. I really enjoyed this book. I would rate this book like a 4, 5 being the best and 1 being the worst. This book is romantic; it has drama, love, friendship, and high school. I didn't really find anything that I would change about this book. I would suggest anyone who loves a good chick flick kind of book; you should read, Someone Like You.

...It is about a girl named Halley who is just dropped off at a camp called Sister Hood camp, she begins to change, when her best friend Scarlett calls her late at night, saying her boyfriend Michal the most popluar boy in her high school, has been killed on his brand new motercycle, later in "Someone Like You" We find out about Scarlett being pregnet with Michal's child. We find out about how she goes though it with Halley's help! Meanwhile Halley is finding herself with her first love a boy named Macon who was Michal's best friend, she faces diffacuilt desions thourgh out there relationship. It is a fablous book, it really taught me about myself! Meanwhile "Keeping the Moon" is complatly opposite and is still a great story! It is about a girl named Colie who has always been teased about her weight, same as her mother, they where always traveling, intil one day her mother meets a health club owner, she helps her mom find a job as a fitness women and Colie and her lose a lot of pounds, but meanwhile the jet-black died hair and the lip ring makes Colie different when she has to stay with her crazy Aunt, for the summer. She meets friends that will change her and makes her more confident about herself and her weight, she even falls for someone! These books were faboulos and great!I loved them both! Read them!

This two books were the best books I have ever read! The author Sarah Dessen, is a great writer. She truly brings life to any character that she writes about. This two stories are about incrediable heroines that will make you want to read more of her work. They are about to girls facing there problems and are willing to overcome them. Each different they make both stories excellent!!! "Someone like You" is about a girl named Halley who has always been close to her mother but when dropped off at camp things change when her best friend Scarlett calls saying her boyfriend died and later in the story she friends out that Scarlett is pregnet. While Halley is soon falling for someone herself and that realationship with a boy name Macon. It truely taught me about myself. "Keeping the moon" is about a girl named Nicole, called Colie, her mother and her used to be extremly over-weight intil her Mom becomes a famous fitness instructer, appearing on T.V. and more she is send to live with her Aunt, crazy as she is for the summer, while her Mom promotes things in Europe. It was a great book also. These are fantastic books!!!!! I reccomend it to any 13 and up girl! One who is mature!

This book is really cool and nice, i like it a lot. It's a really good book, because it's just so excellent. The book is like the best and there is no other book as good as this one because this book is the best. It's like really cool, too. I like it greatly, please read it because it is just so good, it's unbelievable. This book is like super-cool and it's just so nice and swell. This is like the bestest book ever.
Oh yeah and after reading this review you probably think i didn't really read the book, but i did i was just too lazy to write a real review 'cause that's too much work for me.