Īnother of Dessen’s novel published in 2004 was received positively by the critics. The two novels That Summer and Someone Like You were adapted into a single film How to Deal in 2003. It is about the developmental stages in a teenager’s life whose course of actions decides the fate. Halley, novel’s protagonist, is shown coping with the changes around her in friends and family. The book was split in three portions each one showing progress and decline in relationships.
Dessen’s next novel was also a young adult drama, Someone Like You, published in 1998. The protagonist Haven, aged 15, tries to deal with her father’s second marriage, sister’s engagement and her best friend’s odd behaviour. The Summer was a novel about a youth dealing with rapid changes in family and friends relationship dynamics.
She made her novel writing debut three years after graduation in 1996.
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