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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492856-what-happened-to-goodbye
This website gives an accurate summary of the book as well as an accurate review.

http://sarahdessen.com/book/what-happened-to-goodbye/
This is Sarah Dessen's (the author) website. It gives a great backstory on how her novel was written, and how she developed the main character Mclean.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/08/entertainment/la-ca-sarah-dessen-20110508
This review from the Los Angeles Times gives a very good, realistic, review of What Happened to Goodbye.

http://sarahdessen.com/
This s website gives the insight to all of Sarah Dessen's books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen
This website gives the background of Sarah Dessen.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/what-happened-to-goodbye?id=what-happened-to-goodbye
This website lists some of the most important quotes from What Happened to Goodbye.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13014066-what-happened-to-goodbye
This website lists even more quotes from What Happened to Goodbye.

http://moving.about.com/od/youremovingnowwhat/tp/coping_with_a_move.htm
Mclean moved to many new towns in a short amount of time, this website tells you ways to deal with that stress.

http://moving.about.com/b/2008/01/04/how-to-help-teens-deal-with-moving.htm
Being such a young girl it was hard for Mclean to move so often, even if she did not realize it. This website tells you how to specifically help teens with a move.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder
Even though Mclean wasn't diagnosed as having split personality disorder, she definitley showed the signs. This website explains all about the disorder.

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-split-personality-test
This website would have been helpful to Mclean in determining if she had a split personality.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/split-personality-symptoms.html
This website gives the symptoms to split personality disorder.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/children_divorce.htm
Mclean had a hard time dealing with her parents divorce. This website gives some tips on how to cope.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/families/divorce.html
This website also helps kids who are dealing with divorce.

http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Forming-Friendships
This website gives steps on how to form friendships. Mclean always struggled to find her own clique, and these tips could have helped.

4th Quarter is finally here!

Finally, my fellow classmates and I have have reached our fourth quarter as juniors at Carbondale Community High School. This means that we have also reached our fourth quarter of blogging!  I'm pretty excited about this.  Honestly, I really don't mind blogging, but the repeatativeness of it is starting to get old. I'm struggling to find new ideas to keep this blog interesting. On a better note, since it is the fourth quarter I want to end with a bang, and make this the best section of the blog so far! Last quarter, I didn't get as good as a grade as I had hoped for, but I still got an A in the class. This quarter I plan on trying new things and getting more creative, instead of just repeating what I have done on previous quarters. Also, I need to add more media into my blog to make it more interesting.
The book I will be spending this final quarter of blogging with is What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen. This book had 402 pages, and I was scared I wouldnt have time to finish it. However, I was able to finish it in about two weeks. While I'm not fond of most Sarah Dessen books, I really enjoyed this one. I was able to relate to it in a couple different ways that I hadn't  been able to in her other books. First, the main character Mclean moves around a lot. I moved at the end of my fifth grade year and can understand some of the troubles Mclean goes through. Also, there is a lot of basketball in the book. My family is obsessed with basketball. All of my uncles coach it, my dad is a coach, as well as my grandpa. My brother is a great player and is playing in college now. So overall I am excited to write this blog this quarter over What Happened to Goodbye.