Fifteen-year-old Haven is 6 feet tall and still growing. Her bratty older sister is getting married to boring Lewis and yelling at everyone in sight. Her mother has been sad and lonely since her father left. And, to top it all off, her father (sportscaster) and new step-mother (weather girl) have just announced that they are going to have a baby, a month after they were married. Haven is dealing with the crisis in her normal way: being quiet and taking care of everyone around her. Little does the family know, it is only the calm before the storm. To add to the growing stress, one of Ashley's many ex-boyfriends shows up. Sumner was Haven's favorite of Ashley's boyfriends and he reminds her of what the world was like when Ashley still liked her, her parents were still married, and she was happy. As the wedding gets closer and closer, Haven is afraid that she will explode. This book was good, but it wasn't as good as Dessen's normally are. Very short read. This book and one of Dessen's others (Someone Like You) was turned into a movie called How To Deal starring Mandy Moore.
Grade: B-
SC: 3
V: 2
C: 4
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