Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Born in Illinois, Dessen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996. She has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work. In 2019, Dessen was involved in a public controversy after she criticized a student who had opposed a book of hers in a university reading program. Two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.
Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  Dessen waitressed at the restaurant Flying Burrito in Chapel Hill while launching her writing career. She would write during the day and waitress at night. She later went on to quit her job as a waitress after the publication of her first book, That Summer, which was published in 1996. Following the publication of Dreamland, Dessen taught at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and wrote what would later become This Lullaby. Dessen's Along for the Ride made the New York Times Best Sellers List in 2009. After its publication, Dessen was referred to as a "best-seller machine". In November 2019, an Aberdeen News article quoted a Northern State University 
Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  Some of her novels have been among the ALA's "Best Fiction for Young Adults" selections: That Summer (1997), Someone Like You (1999), Keeping the Moon (2000), Dreamland (2001), This Lullaby (2003), Just Listen (2007), and Along for the Ride (2010). Someone Like You was also one of the two winners of the 1999 "School Library Journal Best Book" award, and Keeping the Moon was the sole winner the next year. In 2017, Dessen was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her novels Dreamland (2001), Keeping the Moon (2000), Just Listen (2007), The Truth About Forever (2004), Along for the Ride (2010), What Happened to Goodbye? (2011), and This Lullaby (2003).
Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  The 2003 romantic comedy-drama film How to Deal starring Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Dylan Baker, Peter Gallagher and Trent Ford was based on both That Summer and Someone Like You. On May 30, 2019, it was announced that Netflix had purchased the rights to adapt three of Dessen's books into films: This Lullaby, Along for the Ride, and Once and for All. Along for the Ride will be the first adaptation, and Alyssa Rodrigues is the executive producer for the films.
Title: Once and for All (novel)
Content:  Once and for All is the fourteenth novel by Sarah Dessen. It was published in hardcover on June 6, 2017 and in paperback on May 22, 2018. According to Dessen's website, she was worried she no longer had anything to say after her novel Saint Anything was released in 2015. Surrounded by two people planning weddings and their desire for "wanting things to go perfectly," she felt something needed to be said about the amount of things in our lives we want to go "perfect". And so, Once and for All was written.
Title: Keeping the Moon
Content:  Sarah Dessen is "an absolutely wonderful writer—stylish, smart, and funny" claims Michael Cart. Publishers Weekly also noted that Dessen's "ironic sense of humor and her knack for creating characters with quirky personalities and universal emotions set[s] her book apart [from others]".
Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  Sarah Dessen was born in Evanston, Illinois, on June 6, 1970, to Alan and Cynthia Dessen, who were both professors at the University of North Carolina, teaching Shakespearean literature and classics. As a teenager, Dessen was very shy and quiet. She became involved with a 21-year-old when she was 15 but cut all contact with him shortly after. She has admitted in an interview that "for many years afterward, I took total blame for everything that happened between me and T. After all, I was a bad kid. I did drugs, I lied to my mom. You can't just hang out with a guy and not expect him to get ideas, 
Title: Dreamland (Dessen novel)
Content:  Dreamland (2000) is a teen novel by the American author Sarah Dessen.
Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  In 2017, Dessen was interviewed by Anna Gragert. During the interview, Gragert asked Dessen about the style she uses in some of her books, otherwise known as "effortless perfection". Dessen describes this term as the young girls in her books being able to have friends, look good, be a good student and have your life together and make it look easy. At the start of the book, the reader is supposed to relate with the main characters and throughout their changes in the book, the reader should see that it is okay to not have everything together and not be perfect. Gragert asked Dessen about her anxiety coping mechanisms because writing tends to cause an author to be anxious. Dessen said that she likes to exercise and read in her free time because all writers are going to be anxious, it's part of the process, but it also opens their mind more because they see the world differently than readers.
Title: Sarah Dessen
Content:  told myself. You should have known better. But maybe he should have. When I turned 21, I remember making a point, regularly, to look at teens and ask myself whether I'd want to hang out with them, much less date one. The answer was always a flat, immediate no. They were kids. I was an adult. End of story." Dessen attended Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina, but dropped out not long after to enroll at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, to take classes in creative writing, resulting in her graduating with highest honors. Today Dessen lives Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband Jay and daughter Sasha Clementine.

Question: what sarah dessen books are movies?
Answer: The Truth About Forever.