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=**Sarah Dessen 9/23/11**= =**Lock and Key**= I wondered why she didn't tell someone sooner that her mom left her alone. This book is about a girl who has been living with her mother and father until the day her dad left and her mom was never the same. A few years after her sister left them to go to college, leaving Ruby alone with her mother. She had to work her jobs and still do her mothers job while still being in school, until the day that her mom left her alone in the yellow house that they have been living in for a year or so. Once problems started arising in the house people started to notice that her mother was no longer with her, so then she had to pick up her life and move in with her sister and her husband, then she meets the next door neighbor, my favorite character. My favorite character in the book so far would have to be Nate the next door neighbor who is sweet, nice, and a jock.

I noticed that she didn't thank Nate enough for everything he did for her ever since they met. I wondered if she ever imagined what it would have been like if no one found out about her living alone, I also wondered if she would have made it much longer on her own. It takes her a while but she finally starts to settle into her new life, until her sister gives her some information that sends her over the edge. Thats when she decided to go back to her old life and hang out with her old friends, she gets drunk and passes out in the woods, the only person to help her was the one person that she didn't want anything to do with, Nate. Thats when the holidays hit and everything she has been thinking about him was completely wrong, and they start to get closer even though she knows that she shouldn't. Up until Valentines day when it is to much for her to handle and she decides that she wants to know more about what is going on, but he's more of the type to help others than receive it from someone else, so he choses to walk away. In the end she ends up helping him and graduating, she also gets accepted to college which she never thought would be possible. So in my opinion this book is one of the best that I ever read, it pulled me in and made me see that not everyone has a perfect life and that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover.