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The Best of Me
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Grand Central Publishing 2011
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure:
920L
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Description
In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel of first love and second chances, former high school sweethearts confront the painful truths of their past to build a promising future—together.
"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in their small town in North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.
Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back home for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew—about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear—was not as it seemed.
Forced to confront painful memories, the former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?
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Street Date:
10/11/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781455502547, 9781455502554
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Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.2, 15 Points
Lexile measure:
920
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Nicholas Sparks. (2011). The Best of Me. Grand Central Publishing.

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Nicholas Sparks. 2011. The Best of Me. Grand Central Publishing.

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Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me. Grand Central Publishing, 2011.

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Nicholas Sparks. The Best of Me. Grand Central Publishing, 2011.

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"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in their small town in North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.
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