num_pages: 435
description: Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome kind fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby the beach town where they both grew up. But now in the summer before college Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.Enter Theo a super-ambitious outsider a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated exciting and best of all he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.Emaline's mostly-absentee father too thinks Emaline should have a bigger life and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother stepfather and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?Emaline wants the moon and more but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going?Sarah Dessen's devoted fans will welcome this story of romance yearning and finally empowerment. It could only happen in the summer.
language: English
title: The Moon and More
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers