That Summer

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That Summer
Author	Sarah Dessen
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Young adult
Publisher	Orchard Books
Publication date	October 1996
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	198 pp
ISBN	ISBN 053109538X

This is a page about a book by Sarah Dessen. For the book of the same name by Andrew Greig, see That Summer (Andrew Greig). For the Garth Brooks single, see That Summer (song)

That Summer is Sarah Dessen's first novel, published in 1996.

[edit] Plot summary

For fifteen-year-old Haven (tall, lanky, bordering on six feet) it is a summer framed by two weddings: her father's to Lorna Queen (the "Weather Pet" of the local TV station, and only five years older than Ashley) and her sister Ashley's to dull-as-dishwater Lewis Warsher, a boy Haven can't imagine plucky Ashley being attracted to. Nothing seems stable except for Haven's memories- especially those of the summer when Ashley dated Sumner Lee, who made her parents laugh and loosened Ashley up. Around Sumner, even Haven felt special. Suddenly Sumner reappears in her life, a link to that perfect past- and her future.

[edit] External links

• Sarah Dessen's That Summer page

v • d • e Sarah Dessen bibliography Novels That Summer (1996) · Someone Like You (1998) · Keeping the Moon (1999) · Dreamland (2000) · This Lullaby (2002) · The Truth About Forever (2004) · Just Listen (2006) · Lock and Key (2008)