Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

"I sat there and looked at my mother, at the ease in her face as she told me how I felt, what I thought, everything. Like I was a puzzke, one she'd created, and she knew the solution every time." (p. 170)

Best friends/First love/Mother daughter relationships/Life changing choices/Growing up

This book touches on so many issues in a well written great story. Halley is the quiet one who always turns to Scarlett, her best friend, for the answers. Suddenly the roles are reversed and Scarlett needs Halley after her boyfriend Michael is killed in a motorcycle accident. It is bad enough that Michael died but then Scarlett discovers that she is pregnant. What is she going to do now? As Halley helps Scarlett naviagte the twists and turns of being a pregnant teenager she is going through some major changes of her own. She starts to date Macon, a wild guy that her parents do not approve of. Read the book to find out what happens to Halley, Macon, Scarlett and her baby.

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