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# 4.5/5 from 1,220 reviews Top #29 YA Fiction on Abuse Ranked #158,974 Bestseller Dreamland

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> 📖 Unlock the raw truth behind perfect facades — Dare to dive into Dreamland!

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## Key Features

- • **Highly Rated & Loved:** With over 1,200 reviews averaging 4.5 stars, Dreamland is a proven favorite among discerning readers.
- • **Top-Ranked YA Fiction:** Ranks #29 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Physical & Emotional Abuse, ensuring you’re reading a recognized and impactful title.
- • **Deeply Relatable Protagonist:** Caitlin’s journey offers an authentic, emotional connection that resonates with millennial readers seeking meaningful YA stories.
- • **Award-Worthy Emotional Impact:** Evokes strong feelings and reflection, perfect for book clubs and social discussions on real-life issues.
- • **Critically Acclaimed Narrative:** Praised for its powerful handling of tough themes like domestic abuse and self-discovery, making it a must-read conversation starter.

## Overview

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen is a critically acclaimed young adult novel ranked #29 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Physical & Emotional Abuse. With a 4.5-star rating from over 1,200 readers, it explores the complex emotional journey of Caitlin as she navigates family betrayal, first love, and domestic violence. This deeply moving story is a standout for millennials craving authentic, thought-provoking YA literature.

## Description

desertcart.com: Dreamland: 9780142401750: Dessen, Sarah: Books

Review: In A Nutshell: She's Good - Dreamland has quickly become one of my favorite books and put Sarah Dessen high on my list of authors I need to read more extensively. Dessen handles a difficult subject well. With well-chosen words, she puts you as a reader into Caitlin's world immediately. And keeps you there. I feel that Caitlin is one of the most well-developed characters I have encountered in modern YA, and I consider myself as having high standards for such things. I was also impressed by her use of metaphor and description. I was in that car the first time Rogerson hit Caitlin. In a nutshell: she's good. I usually speed read through a book if it has no substance. Dreamland was definitely a slow read for me. And an enjoyable one.
Review: Caitlin's Story - Of all the book's of Sarah's this is the one that made me cry more, there were parts were I was just crying so hard that I could barely read. The story goes like this: On the moring of Caitlin's sixteen birthday Cass, her "perfect" older sister, runs out with her boyfriend Adam, chosing New York over Yale and leaving Caitlin's family chrushed. Caitlin's father feels betrayed by his daugther, her mom barely realizes of anything anymore, and Caitlin is left alone to start her junior year with out her sister, with the sole support of Rina, her best friend, and Boo and Stuart, neighboors and best family friends. Rina convinces Caitlin to try out for cheerleading, because that was one of the few things that Cass never did. Surprisingly and not really wanting to, she ends up being picked out for squad. After one of her games, Caitlin, Rina and another cheerleader stop in a carwash and there she meets Rogerson Briscoe, and things heat up with him. Suddenly he is everywere, and Caitlin suddenly finds herself with a brilliant cool boyfriend. Rogerson, however, has lots of long stories... and lots of dark secrets. Caitlin doesn't care, he is taking her places where Cass has never been. One day, Rogerson's dark secret comes out, when he hits Caitlin for the fisrt time. Not ready to leave him yet, she stays. And the story goes on, Caitlin has fallen into a box, sealed with love and need, feeling trapt but lacking the will to scape, she hides the bruises and resumes to Dreamland... were things don't seem so bad. All the characters are wonderful, Caitlin and Rogerson relationship well descrived, Boo and Stuart, Rina, Cass, Corina... I highly recomend this book. It's goes beyond the hiting problem, i think you can identify yourself there because more than about domestic violence, is about finding yourself when there are no pointers showing the way. One of my favorite parts is when Caitlin wonders what would she think if saw this photograph of this girl that sits in her boyfriends lap so easily and how happy both looked (the ones in the photo are her and Rogerson), she says that she would have think that her life was perfect, just like once she had believed Cass's life to be perfect, she says that she had learned it was too easy to just asume things

## Features

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #158,974 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #29 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Physical & Emotional Abuse (Books) #101 in Teen & Young Adult Siblings Fiction #306 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Girls' & Women's Issues (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In A Nutshell: She's Good
*by N***E on April 10, 2009*

Dreamland has quickly become one of my favorite books and put Sarah Dessen high on my list of authors I need to read more extensively. Dessen handles a difficult subject well. With well-chosen words, she puts you as a reader into Caitlin's world immediately. And keeps you there. I feel that Caitlin is one of the most well-developed characters I have encountered in modern YA, and I consider myself as having high standards for such things. I was also impressed by her use of metaphor and description. I was in that car the first time Rogerson hit Caitlin. In a nutshell: she's good. I usually speed read through a book if it has no substance. Dreamland was definitely a slow read for me. And an enjoyable one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Caitlin's Story
*by A***X on April 10, 2004*

Of all the book's of Sarah's this is the one that made me cry more, there were parts were I was just crying so hard that I could barely read. The story goes like this: On the moring of Caitlin's sixteen birthday Cass, her "perfect" older sister, runs out with her boyfriend Adam, chosing New York over Yale and leaving Caitlin's family chrushed. Caitlin's father feels betrayed by his daugther, her mom barely realizes of anything anymore, and Caitlin is left alone to start her junior year with out her sister, with the sole support of Rina, her best friend, and Boo and Stuart, neighboors and best family friends. Rina convinces Caitlin to try out for cheerleading, because that was one of the few things that Cass never did. Surprisingly and not really wanting to, she ends up being picked out for squad. After one of her games, Caitlin, Rina and another cheerleader stop in a carwash and there she meets Rogerson Briscoe, and things heat up with him. Suddenly he is everywere, and Caitlin suddenly finds herself with a brilliant cool boyfriend. Rogerson, however, has lots of long stories... and lots of dark secrets. Caitlin doesn't care, he is taking her places where Cass has never been. One day, Rogerson's dark secret comes out, when he hits Caitlin for the fisrt time. Not ready to leave him yet, she stays. And the story goes on, Caitlin has fallen into a box, sealed with love and need, feeling trapt but lacking the will to scape, she hides the bruises and resumes to Dreamland... were things don't seem so bad. All the characters are wonderful, Caitlin and Rogerson relationship well descrived, Boo and Stuart, Rina, Cass, Corina... I highly recomend this book. It's goes beyond the hiting problem, i think you can identify yourself there because more than about domestic violence, is about finding yourself when there are no pointers showing the way. One of my favorite parts is when Caitlin wonders what would she think if saw this photograph of this girl that sits in her boyfriends lap so easily and how happy both looked (the ones in the photo are her and Rogerson), she says that she would have think that her life was perfect, just like once she had believed Cass's life to be perfect, she says that she had learned it was too easy to just asume things

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ emotional brutal and so identifiable
*by K***E on March 27, 2013*

I am not a teenager. I am a mother of teenagers and I teach teenagers. This book really should be given to every teenage girl and ideally, if you could get them to read it, every teenage boy. And for good measure, give it to every parent of a teenager. If you read the plot synopsis, you might not be interested: it sounds pedestrian with great potential for emotional manipulation. I went into this book really knowing nothing about the book or the author except that I had read some impressive quotes from her books on Goodreads.The book is emotionally brutal but never manipulative: I was sobbing for the last third of the book, because the simple emotional truths were so raw and real. I remember reading "teen isssue of the month" young adult books as a teenager but they were popcorn dressed with a superficial lesson compared to this. I wish there had been such books when I was a teenager. At one point near the end, the main character reads a letter from her sister who ran away at the beginning of the book. Her sister writes about how she draws on the quiet strength of the main character to pull her through the hard times. Caitlin, the main character, who has always felt herself in the shadow of her "perfect" older sister, remarks "funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even taking notice of it." and that she wishes her sister had physically turned her head and forced her to see this strength in herself as it might have made all the difference. But I could so identify with characters in this book although my life has had none of the problems anyone in this book has. I would guess that most people would find someone in the book that they identify with or can picture someone in their own lives who is eerily similar to to a character in the book. Either you are the perfect sister or the second fiddle, the overly controlling and involved mom, the slightly crazy best friend who is there for you but whose decisions you question, the abusive boyfriend, the heart of gold friend with whom you have nothing in common with on the surface, the quiet but understanding in his own way dad. The theme of finding yourself/ getting out from under the shadow of a mythical friend or family member can resonate with just about everyone. The narrative of the abusive boyfriend rings so true as does the paralleling of such abuse as an addiction. The circumstances of how Caitlin gets in the abusive relationship is just like many people's first experience with a drug: it's a fascinating "bad" thing you just want to taste once. The bruises left behind and how Caitlin uses long clothes to cover it up are just the same effects and cover up that many addicts experience. And just as with a drug addiction, you never think you could find yourself in such a situation but then it happens. Dessen's writing is what keeps this from becoming a Lifetime Channel movie of the week. She is psychologically astute and doesn't shy away from the realities of life no matter how ugly they may be. Parents, yes this means that a lot of what teens are doing behind your back is realistically depicted: there is drug abuse, smoking, language, sex, violence, but I think the book could be very useful in pointing out these dangers to teens in a way that is not preachy and is entirely relatable.

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