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Dessen's two other books That Summer and Keeping the Moon both deal with first love and family relationships. In That Summer, Haven's dad remarries and her sister marries. Sumner, one of her sister's former boyfriends and the one she liked the best, reappears and Haven has a major crush on him. Since she and her sister are not getting along very well and she is not happy about her father's remarriage, she finds him to be a safe refuge. The summer ends with her discovery that "The first boy is always the hardest." In Keeping the Moon, Colie's mother, a popular aerobics guru, leaves Colie with her overweight, eccentric Aunt Mira for the summer while she tours Europe. While living in the small North Carolina town, Colie meets two older girls who teach her what friendship really is and discovers a new sense of self-confidence as she deals with her...
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