5/28/2023 0 Comments Lock and key sarah dessen summary![]() ![]() A former student said this was her favorite, and I decided to give it a try on her recommendation. She’s wildly popular, but I just hadn’t tried one. I must confess, I’ve never read a Sarah Dessen book before. Maybe Ruby would be better off going back to that life. Her other life may have been lonely and desperate, but it was familiar and comfortable. ![]() How is Ruby supposed to live in this foreign place with the sister who left her? They are like strangers now. Once Social Services gets involved, Ruby is sent to live with Cora and her husband, Jamie, in their ritzy neighborhood with expensive cars and expensive private schools. And she can only dodge their landlord for so long before someone notices that she’s alone and barely getting by. Now, Ruby’s mom has walked off, too, leaving 17-year-old Ruby to fend for herself. Even though she had been Ruby’s protector when they were kids, she left Ruby alone with their mother. When Cora left for college, she never looked back at her life with an alcoholic mother. After her parents’ divorce, her dad drifted off to a new life without Ruby, or her sister Cora. ![]()
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