There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.Wake up, Ca. The story is interesting and the characters are excellent. Read 4,528 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. In Dreamland, Sarah Dessen does an excellent job writing about a sensitive issue without the book reading like an after school special. I think it’s really important for teens (and adults!) to see this. Caitlin still has things to work through.

Once she finally gets help, everything isn’t great all at once. It’s easy for Caitlin to make excuses for Rogerson and forgive him. When not even a successful bid to make the cheerleading squad earns Caitlin more than fitful parental attention, she plunges into faster waters, hooking up with Rogerson, a fifth-year senior with a police record, a BMW, and a thriving business dealing pot. It doesn’t go horribly wrong all at once. Being with Rogerson helps Caitlin deal with everything else in her life. What I really appreciate about Dreamland is the way it shows the progression of Caitlin and Rogerson’s relationship. While it’s one of the shorter Sarah Dessen books, it’s one of the most intense. However, Dreamland delves deeper into the issue at hand. Now, all of Sarah’s books have serious issues that her characters have to deal with. It’s been said that Sarah’s newest book Saint Anything is her “darkest” book to date. You can see when each book is featured in this graphic from Penguin Teen: But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him?įor the Summer of Sarah Dessen I’m posting reviews of all her books that I haven’t reviewed yet. Being with him makes Caitlin forget about everything else-her missing sister, her withdrawn mother, her lackluster life.

Rogerson is different from anyone Caitlin has ever known. JHeidi Book Review 2 Dreamland by Sarah DessenĮver since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious dreamland where nothing is quite real.

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