Once and for All

Saint Anything

Lock and Key

The Moon and More

What Happened to Goodbye

Dear Sweet Pea

You Have a Match

Sundae Girl

Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. 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.

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—her grandmother and cousins she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl.

When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is divided into two people as well. To her father, she is Emma. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her.

Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. 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.

For Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her. But when it’s time to go back home, which side of her will win out?

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Once and for All

Sarah Dessen, 2017

Saint Anything

Sarah Dessen, 2015

Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen, 2008

The Moon and More

Sarah Dessen, 2013

What Happened to Goodbye

Sarah Dessen, 2011

Dear Sweet Pea

Julie Murphy, 2019

You Have a Match

Emma Lord, 2021

Sundae Girl

Cathy Cassidy, 2007