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Lock and Key
by: Sarah Dessen

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780670010882
ISBN: 067001088X
Label: Viking Juvenile
Manufacturer: Viking Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 5497
Studio: Viking Juvenile

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“Ruby, where is your mother?”

Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she’s been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.

That’s how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasn’t seen in ten years, and Cora’s husband Jamie, whose down-to-earth demeanor makes it hard for Ruby to believe he founded the most popular networking Web site around. A luxurious house, fancy private school, a new wardrobe, the promise of college and a future—it’s a dream come true. So why is Ruby such a reluctant Cinderella, wary and defensive? And why is Nate, the genial boy next door with some secrets of his own, unable to accept the help that Ruby is just learning to give?

Best-selling author Sarah Dessen explores the heart of a gutsy, complex girl dealing with unforeseen circumstances and learning to trust again.

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- Amazing
I've recently discovered Sarah Dessen and could not put any of her books down. I borrowed this book from the library, and was bummed when I had to wait a week to get it, but it was worth it!!! Definitely a good read!!!!!

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- Enchanting Review: Lock and Key
LOCK AND KEY
SARAH DESSEN
Contemporary Young Adult

Rating: 4 Enchantments

Ruby is living a secretive lifestyle with her mother, an emotionally dependent alcoholic. Ruby also has plenty of secrets that she hides from others, even her closet friends. Ruby always does what she's told and never questions her mother, even though most of the time she should. Ruby also helps support her mother by working at a job where she delivers peoples lost luggage to them. Ruby, though fun loving, is also very stubborn and sticks to her ways.

Seven months before Ruby's eighteenth birthday, her mother disappears. This isn't the first time, so Ruby assumes that she'll be back. When a few days absence turns into a few weeks, Ruby does what she can to keep her living situation in the yellow farm house afloat. School by day and work by night, Ruby thinks she's going to be able to get ... Read More

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- Heartwarming!
Ruby is abandoned by her mother. She thinks she can sail on through living alone until her 18th birthday until she is discovered by her landlords and is sent to live with her sister who she hasn't seen in 10 years.

This is my first book by Sarah Dessen and I rather enjoyed it. I saw the movie that two of her books was based on, How to Deal, and didn't exactly like it so I never tried out her books until now. But I'm glad I did. Lock and Key had a really nice theme of family, more specifically sisters. It also speaks about losing the hard shell that a lot of us walk around wearing from day to day.

I felt there were enough secondary characters to keep the story interesting but not so many that I started forgetting who was who. I especially liked Ruby's friend Olivia and her cousin Laney. The book is rather long but I read it pretty fast because the story was so great. Nothing too shocking ... Read More

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- Lock and Key
Title- Lock and Key

Author- Sarah Dessen

Rating- 4/5

Good-

I've been waiting forever for this book. I am a huge fan of Sarah Dessen, have been for many years. When I got it, I could not wait to read it... Now, onto the book. This was a very very deep book. The characters had many layers that made them unique and interesting. None of the major characters fit any typical stereotypes. Lock and Key had a very different plot line that intrigued me from the very first moment I read about it.

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I find myself running out of good things to say... That doesn't make it a bad book though. It's just that I don't think I'd be able to honestly say that the book wowed me. I wasn't amazed, I didn't feel the need to stay up late in the night to finish it. There's nothing truly awful about the book... but I didn't feel the same connection with it like ... Read More

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