Sarah Dessen Books, Ranked
No One Does YA Better Than Sarah Dessen, and Her 11 Best Books Are Proof
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Dessen's "The Rest of the Story," released in 2019, is about Emma Saylor Payne, a 17-year-old spending summer with her maternal grandmother, who she doesn't really know. Emma's mother died and they didn't have a close relationship, but being around her mother's family in her mother's childhood home forces her to reconcile with her past. She's helped by Roo Price, the boy who was her best friend as a toddler.