It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake-and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo’s spell as well.įor Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her. Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. author of What Happened to Goodbye and Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen. Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. Books by Sarah Dessen THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER 9780141322926 Penguin V9780141322926. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is also divided into two people. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable…until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother’s family that she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. A girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl-and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer.Įmma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve.
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