The town is divided in two: North Lake and the upper-class Lake North, and Emma belongs to both. This book tells the story of a girl who finds herself in her mother’s hometown for the summer. But when it’s time to go back home, which side of her will win out? It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake-and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo’s spell as well.įor Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her. Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is divided into two people as well. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable…until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother’s family-her grandmother and cousins she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. It's hard not to get caught up in the magic of the Lake – and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo's spell as well.Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. Roo holds the key to her family's history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. Then there's Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little.

When Emma arrives at the Lake, and spends more time with her mother's side of the family, she starts to feel like she is two different people. until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family – her grandmother and cousins she hasn't seen since she was a little girl.

Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable.

But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. From number one New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl – and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer.

The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen