Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

Hoover, Colleen. Hopeless. New York: Atria, 2013. Print. ISBN: 978-1476743554. $15.00. Ages 14+

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Annotation: Sky's life is practically just like anyone's with exception of her being adopted and living with her mother who is a bit overprotective. Sky makes discoveries about herself and her past when she starts her senior year at a brand new school.

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Booktalk: Sky is adopted. She lives with her mom and has done all of her schooling at home. Now that it is time for her senior year, Sky wants to bulk up her experiences to get into a good college so she convinces her mom to let her attend high school so she can participate in extracurricular activities. Sky and her best friend spend a lot of time messing around with boys, but out of all of them, she has never felt much of a connection, just a kind of numbness. It isn't until she meets Dean Holder that she starts to feel something. Dean finds familiarity in Sky and as they spend more and more time together, Sky feels compelled to open up to him. After learning of Dean's twin sister's suicide, Sky informs him that her biological mother died when she was young, so she was adopted by her mother Karen. What Sky doesn't realize is that Dean does in fact know her from somewhere. Through an epic love story unwinds the history of a girl who didn't think much about how her life has played out. Discover the secrets and twists of Sky's history and the fight she gives to know the truth, even when everything seems Hopeless.

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