TOP 5 SARAH DESSEN BOOKS

Audrina Anabelle: A Story of Ostracism and Friendship

I recently read about Audrina Anabelle, a young girl who was once popular but was ostracized after something unfortunate happened at a party. She became an outcast among her peers, and even her best friend couldn't bring themselves to listen to her anymore. This experience left Audrina feeling isolated and alone, until she met a quiet and music-obsessed guy who became her confidant and friend.

This unlikely friendship was the start of something beautiful for Audrina. The guy, who was also an outcast in his own way, taught her how to "just listen" to music and let it help her navigate life's challenges. Their bond grew stronger as they navigated the ups and downs of adolescence together. I must say, Audrina's deeper issues with her body image were evident in her struggles with her self-acceptance. It was a relatable story that made me appreciate the importance of having supportive friends like him.

On the other hand, we have "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara, a novel that explores themes of grief and trauma. The story follows Macy, a young girl who is struggling to cope with the loss of her father. She is a sheltered and quiet person who feels lost without her father's guidance. Her life takes a drastic turn when she lands an internship at a prestigious company called Wish Catering. It is there that she meets a group of fascinating friends who become like a surrogate family to her.

Macy soon discovers that she has a lot more to offer than what she initially thought. She meets a silent artist type of guy who becomes a source of comfort and inspiration for her. Through their friendship, Macy learns how to open up and explore the world beyond her comfort zone. The novel delves into themes of grief, loss, and self-discovery, making it a truly unforgettable read.

Another favorite series of mine is "The Secrets We Keep" by Wally Lamb, which tells the story of Ruth, a young girl who has always felt like an outsider. She is shy and introverted, struggling to find her place in the world. After losing her father, Ruth feels lost and uncertain about her future. Enter Jamie, a quiet and introspective guy who becomes her friend and confidant.

As their friendship deepens, Ruth learns how to let go of her fears and insecurities. She discovers that she has a lot more to offer than what she initially thought, and that it's okay to be herself without apology. The novel explores themes of family dynamics, grief, and self-discovery, making it an incredibly moving read.

Lastly, we have "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" by Michelle McNamara, a true crime novel that tells the story of Corinna, a young girl who goes missing under mysterious circumstances. Her mother is left to pick up the pieces and raise her alone, which takes a toll on her mental health.

The novel delves into themes of grief, trauma, and loss, making it an incredibly powerful read. It's a testament to the strength and resilience of mothers and daughters everywhere who have been through similar experiences. The author's writing is hauntingly beautiful, weaving a narrative that will leave you speechless.

Lastly, we have "A Freak in You" by Laura Wilson, which tells the story of Ruby, a young girl whose mother suddenly vanishes without warning. She is left to navigate life alone, struggling to cope with her emotions and find solace. Her big sister, Cory, tries to support her but feels guilty for abandoning her earlier on.

As they try to rebuild their relationship, Ruby learns how to open up and trust others again. The novel explores themes of family dynamics, loss, and self-discovery, making it an incredibly moving read. I must say that my favorite character was Jamie, Cory's husband, who becomes a source of comfort and support for the entire family.

Overall, these books are not just stories about teenagers; they're also about adult life struggles that we can all relate to. They tackle themes such as grief, loss, self-discovery, and trauma in a way that is both thought-provoking and emotionally resonant.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today I'm doing a top five and what am i doing a top five of Amelia top five of one of my favorite authors books Sarah Dessen if you guys don't know I love serious and I have talked about her gears in this channel she's always been my my favorite authors and she's definitely my favorite contemporary author by far and I thought it's perfect timing to do this video because penguin is actually doing this whole um like campaign watch hash tag kind of Nicki for the end of the summer got hold on to somewhere you can - tag hold on to somewhere it's on Instagram Twitter all that kind of stuff but pretty much what it is it's just a campaign featuring singer of Essen who I love Huntley Fitzpatrick who I love and Stephanie Perkins who I love so all my love and its crew socially campaign featuring them and celebrating our perfect everyone's favorite summery romance authors so yeah definitely use the hashtag to talk about it and plus there's going to be a giveaway penguin is hosting a giveaway for you guys that's right for you guys I'm lucky when it is going to win one copy of all of Sarah Dessen's books and Sarah Dessen has a lot of books over ten not pretty sure at least eight five six seven eight nine yeah she's got over 10 maybe 12 so one lucky person could win like eleven books that's amazing I'm adding all the information about the avoid details down below how to enter of all the rules and kind of stuff so definitely check it out down below if you would love to win a copy of one of each services books and literally who put it onto my topic they are serious and books now like I said before many times I love Sarah des who my fossil talk about her absolutely like it's probably an obsession i huh but she just writes the most amazing type of summary I love reading Sarah Dessen the spring and summer that is for sure that's I think her I just I don't know when I read Sarah Dessen or when I think my service method of spring and summer and so they're contemporary they're like books but usually they have like a lifelong lesson in them which is awesome they have you know very strong female characters are living the life lesson and I find it just amazing so I'm gonna show you guys my top five favorite anyway on to number five and that's to be synched anything this is her newest book just came out like a couple months ago and I felt almost as soon as I read it I sped read I was like I read this so fast and I really just loved it this is about a girl named Sydney and Sydney has something only problems with her life her brother is in prison and pretty much um they're treating her family's treating it's like her brother is in prison like he's off to summer camp and she's only one that sees that he's you know he's in prison something's wrong something's been going on and her mom doesn't listen to her and it's just Sydney figuring out who she is learning how to tell her family how she feels learning to you know accept consequences for her family's mistakes because no one else seems to be doing it it's so amazing the love interest is amazing as well and Mac is just so cool I love this book because the she meets her friends and like her friends family owns a pizza parlor and it's just so so awesome so I love this one I just I really do love this look at it just came out so I mean it's definitely in your book services go get it go get it and it number four is along for the ride how PG is this cover it's not make you want to go ride the bike on the beach or what cuz yeah I want to is that a good I'm on and who has like insomnia she's up all night and stuff and then she meets this guy named Eli who was also kind of like that he's very quiet he has had some stuff happen to him in his past he doesn't talk about and him and on it and hit autumn become really good friends and they the room or there was blossoms and he teaches her you know how to go along for the ride that his life and she teaches him to finally open up and talk about things it's just a really really cute book I really do love it so yeah I definitely recommend this one reading this the summer because yeah it's summery okay done oh my top three these are truly my favorite Sarah Dessen books these I've not changed it like forever these are my top three is gonna be just listen oh how do I describe my love for this book I love it so this is about Audrina Anabelle who she was very popular things for going great further than something happened at this party and you don't figure out what I mean before I guess and all that kind of stuff but just ever since I happened at the party everyone has turned against her her best friend as I talk to her nobody listens to her she's kind of an outcast now and with that she meets a guy who was music obsessed and also very outcasts and quiet and they strike up a friendship and stuff like that and he teaches your how to baby just just listen you know it sounds it's almost like a double meeting you know just listen to the music and let it help you but also have the friend that has completely like the treat her turned her back on her to listen to her sad story to her to like grasp it and it's just such an amazing book Zebulon her deeper boobs I would say because it's about a girl it's been pretty much ostracized and it's just so good plus if you like this lullaby characters from the small Nova are in this book I love that about contemporary series they kind of intertwine them it's so awesome to Peter look oh my gosh I read your look couple years ago and you're here again amazing Diana or two is the truth about forever ah another love but of these I love this is about a grown in a sea who has a brain boyfriend he goes off to like brain camp you know those camps for smart people I'm not one of those but any means huh and she's working a while very boring and taking SAT courses pretty much like the most boring summer ever and she's also just lost her father and her and her mother once through that kind of grief type of thing and Macy's just a very quiet sheltered girl and then chaos happens in her life she realized this job with the wish company this wish catering company if she meets all these amazing friends and of course she meets a guy he's like a silent artist type of guy and it's just so so amazing this book is about learning how to grieve and learning how to just become yourself you know don't be such a nut shell of a person you know to open up and embrace life and you know to grieve properly and it's such a good book and what I love all of seriousness book because this your secondary characters are amazing so my favorite characters are the sign squit essentially no the secondary characters the friends that the main character meet and I love them they're always so full of life so funny they're each different in their own way and I just I love them I would read a freak about each one oh because they're so interesting my favorite of all favorites is lucking key and this is about a girl named Ruby and Ruby this is her mother and it's kind of a her mom has some problems going on and then Ruby's mother just up and vanishes and leaves pretty much Ruby alone so Ruby's been taking care of herself and pretty much her mother for a long time and then her big sister work I'm skips her up and makes her move in with her and her husband Jamie and Ruby feels like Cory Cora has abandoned them a long time ago so she's very hesitant about this very nervous and I love this book this is my favorite because of the family dynamic and it the relationship of a sister and sister that has struggled that was good and then struggled another learning to love again and it's just a beautiful book and it's got some other problems in here that I dealt with so like not these are teen books but sometimes the older characters you know have things going on I definitely can relate with and cor definitely had that going on and I could totally understand it and I really loved that blow that was in there um but I just love the family dynamic in this book and Jamie oh what a sweetheart Jamie was the best husband ever and it's just so so good it's about Ruby you know learning how to open up to her family again to learn that it doesn't have to be just her all the time she could rely on other people she can rely on her sister because that's her sister and it's just that and it's just an amazing book alright top 5 favorites iridescent books if you love serious emotions I do which I do is a lot of people do and who would it because she's amazing please leave them down below what are your favorite series of books I would love to know and through that giveaway and thanks to penguin for helping we let the giveaway and I will talk to you guys later remember to use the hashtag hold on to star because some are driving soon you know I like summer I'm kind of happy it's over because I'm a fall girl through the through autumn is me I love it anyway that's how I guys laterhello everyone today I'm doing a top five and what am i doing a top five of Amelia top five of one of my favorite authors books Sarah Dessen if you guys don't know I love serious and I have talked about her gears in this channel she's always been my my favorite authors and she's definitely my favorite contemporary author by far and I thought it's perfect timing to do this video because penguin is actually doing this whole um like campaign watch hash tag kind of Nicki for the end of the summer got hold on to somewhere you can - tag hold on to somewhere it's on Instagram Twitter all that kind of stuff but pretty much what it is it's just a campaign featuring singer of Essen who I love Huntley Fitzpatrick who I love and Stephanie Perkins who I love so all my love and its crew socially campaign featuring them and celebrating our perfect everyone's favorite summery romance authors so yeah definitely use the hashtag to talk about it and plus there's going to be a giveaway penguin is hosting a giveaway for you guys that's right for you guys I'm lucky when it is going to win one copy of all of Sarah Dessen's books and Sarah Dessen has a lot of books over ten not pretty sure at least eight five six seven eight nine yeah she's got over 10 maybe 12 so one lucky person could win like eleven books that's amazing I'm adding all the information about the avoid details down below how to enter of all the rules and kind of stuff so definitely check it out down below if you would love to win a copy of one of each services books and literally who put it onto my topic they are serious and books now like I said before many times I love Sarah des who my fossil talk about her absolutely like it's probably an obsession i huh but she just writes the most amazing type of summary I love reading Sarah Dessen the spring and summer that is for sure that's I think her I just I don't know when I read Sarah Dessen or when I think my service method of spring and summer and so they're contemporary they're like books but usually they have like a lifelong lesson in them which is awesome they have you know very strong female characters are living the life lesson and I find it just amazing so I'm gonna show you guys my top five favorite anyway on to number five and that's to be synched anything this is her newest book just came out like a couple months ago and I felt almost as soon as I read it I sped read I was like I read this so fast and I really just loved it this is about a girl named Sydney and Sydney has something only problems with her life her brother is in prison and pretty much um they're treating her family's treating it's like her brother is in prison like he's off to summer camp and she's only one that sees that he's you know he's in prison something's wrong something's been going on and her mom doesn't listen to her and it's just Sydney figuring out who she is learning how to tell her family how she feels learning to you know accept consequences for her family's mistakes because no one else seems to be doing it it's so amazing the love interest is amazing as well and Mac is just so cool I love this book because the she meets her friends and like her friends family owns a pizza parlor and it's just so so awesome so I love this one I just I really do love this look at it just came out so I mean it's definitely in your book services go get it go get it and it number four is along for the ride how PG is this cover it's not make you want to go ride the bike on the beach or what cuz yeah I want to is that a good I'm on and who has like insomnia she's up all night and stuff and then she meets this guy named Eli who was also kind of like that he's very quiet he has had some stuff happen to him in his past he doesn't talk about and him and on it and hit autumn become really good friends and they the room or there was blossoms and he teaches her you know how to go along for the ride that his life and she teaches him to finally open up and talk about things it's just a really really cute book I really do love it so yeah I definitely recommend this one reading this the summer because yeah it's summery okay done oh my top three these are truly my favorite Sarah Dessen books these I've not changed it like forever these are my top three is gonna be just listen oh how do I describe my love for this book I love it so this is about Audrina Anabelle who she was very popular things for going great further than something happened at this party and you don't figure out what I mean before I guess and all that kind of stuff but just ever since I happened at the party everyone has turned against her her best friend as I talk to her nobody listens to her she's kind of an outcast now and with that she meets a guy who was music obsessed and also very outcasts and quiet and they strike up a friendship and stuff like that and he teaches your how to baby just just listen you know it sounds it's almost like a double meeting you know just listen to the music and let it help you but also have the friend that has completely like the treat her turned her back on her to listen to her sad story to her to like grasp it and it's just such an amazing book Zebulon her deeper boobs I would say because it's about a girl it's been pretty much ostracized and it's just so good plus if you like this lullaby characters from the small Nova are in this book I love that about contemporary series they kind of intertwine them it's so awesome to Peter look oh my gosh I read your look couple years ago and you're here again amazing Diana or two is the truth about forever ah another love but of these I love this is about a grown in a sea who has a brain boyfriend he goes off to like brain camp you know those camps for smart people I'm not one of those but any means huh and she's working a while very boring and taking SAT courses pretty much like the most boring summer ever and she's also just lost her father and her and her mother once through that kind of grief type of thing and Macy's just a very quiet sheltered girl and then chaos happens in her life she realized this job with the wish company this wish catering company if she meets all these amazing friends and of course she meets a guy he's like a silent artist type of guy and it's just so so amazing this book is about learning how to grieve and learning how to just become yourself you know don't be such a nut shell of a person you know to open up and embrace life and you know to grieve properly and it's such a good book and what I love all of seriousness book because this your secondary characters are amazing so my favorite characters are the sign squit essentially no the secondary characters the friends that the main character meet and I love them they're always so full of life so funny they're each different in their own way and I just I love them I would read a freak about each one oh because they're so interesting my favorite of all favorites is lucking key and this is about a girl named Ruby and Ruby this is her mother and it's kind of a her mom has some problems going on and then Ruby's mother just up and vanishes and leaves pretty much Ruby alone so Ruby's been taking care of herself and pretty much her mother for a long time and then her big sister work I'm skips her up and makes her move in with her and her husband Jamie and Ruby feels like Cory Cora has abandoned them a long time ago so she's very hesitant about this very nervous and I love this book this is my favorite because of the family dynamic and it the relationship of a sister and sister that has struggled that was good and then struggled another learning to love again and it's just a beautiful book and it's got some other problems in here that I dealt with so like not these are teen books but sometimes the older characters you know have things going on I definitely can relate with and cor definitely had that going on and I could totally understand it and I really loved that blow that was in there um but I just love the family dynamic in this book and Jamie oh what a sweetheart Jamie was the best husband ever and it's just so so good it's about Ruby you know learning how to open up to her family again to learn that it doesn't have to be just her all the time she could rely on other people she can rely on her sister because that's her sister and it's just that and it's just an amazing book alright top 5 favorites iridescent books if you love serious emotions I do which I do is a lot of people do and who would it because she's amazing please leave them down below what are your favorite series of books I would love to know and through that giveaway and thanks to penguin for helping we let the giveaway and I will talk to you guys later remember to use the hashtag hold on to star because some are driving soon you know I like summer I'm kind of happy it's over because I'm a fall girl through the through autumn is me I love it anyway that's how I guys later\n"