The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

Interest Level: YA

Reading Level: 4.5
Lexile: HL660L
Genre: Realistic Fiction

Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the lake where she grew up. Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable, until Emma, is unexpectedly sent to spend 3 weeks at the lake with her mother's family, who she hasn't seen since she was a little girl. When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Her mother grew up in working-class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is divided into two people as well. To her father, she is Emma. But to her mother's family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her.

I was looking for an audio book to listen to while I worked out. When I saw that Dessen had a new novel and that the audio was available through the library, I thought I would give it a listen. Although there are 14 Sarah Dessen novels in the LRMS collection, I have not read any of them. I was hoping that this would be a new Dessen novel for the middle school collection but sadly no. Due to the fact that there is under-age drinking in this story, I will not be adding it to the library collection. Although the message is a good one.. underage drinking is dangerous.