That Summer | 
| Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 12939
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0142401722
EAN: 9780142401729
ASIN: 0142401722
Publication Date: May 11, 2004
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Product Description
For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She's nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister&150the always perfect Ashley&150is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley's reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes to grips with the future.
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 summer reading July 17, 2008
Great summer book for my 13 year old daughter! she loved it....loves Sarah Dessen
 That Summer June 28, 2008
Hindsight isn't always 20/20, especially when you don't have all the facts. That's Haven's problem in That Summer. Life for Haven isn't exactly easy, but more to the point she's going through more than enough changes. She keeps growing, her sister is getting married, her father is remarrying, leaving her confused in a turbulent summer nothing like the ones before.
Then enters Sumner, the guy that made life so great. Sumner and her sister seemed to have it all, and all seemed brighter with Sumner in their lives. Ashley and Haven got along great, her parents were still together...everything was perfect. So unlike what she's having to put up with now.
The thing about this story is the way everything can seem so black and white sometimes, even when it's always a varying shade of gray. I understand how upset Haven is, as I couldn't begin to understand that sort of stress, but her expectations she places on Sumner -- Ashley's old boyfriend -- are unrealistic. What does she want him to do, exactly? I have a feeling Haven wouldn't know the answer to that question, which is probably the point.
The end of this story speeds up unexpectedly, slamming the door shut on a relatively quiet book. It's definitely a first novel, with weaknesses abound, but there are significant points in the narrative, mostly between Haven and her family, that tell of future strengths. Sarah Dessen only gets better from here.
Movie Soundtrack of this book April 13, 2008
I haven't read the book or seen the movie. All I know is that the soundtrack to the movie version of this amazing and worth looking for. It's always made me look for the movie. If the book is anything like the soundtrack it's gotta be great. A good introduction to New Wave from the late 70's. Here's the track listing. As far as I know it's never been released on CD.
A1Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
A2Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll
A3Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
A4The Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern
A5The Zones - New Life
A6The Only Ones - Another Girl, Anther Planet
A7Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
A8Patti Smith - Because the Night
B1The Boomtown Rats - Kicks
B2Ramones - Rockaway Beach
B3The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
B4Eddie and the Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
B5Ian Dury - What a Waste
B6Nick Lowe - I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
B7Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
B8Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
 Okay April 9, 2008
I'm not gonna say I didn't like it because it was an enjoyable read but not much going on. From pretty much the start you know what happens and it pretty much just follows Haven's life. I've read many of Dessen's books and she can write alot better than she did in this book!
Okay April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was kind of boring.
I wish there had been some romance in there.
But overall, it was okay
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