Dreamland (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Caitlin O'Koren: The main character and the girl being abused by her boyfriend.
• Rogerson Biscoe: Rogerson is Caitlins not so good boyfriend. Growing up he was abused by his father and still is. He's a drug dealer. Throughout the book he started to abuse Caitlin.
• Cassandra O'Koren: This is Caitlyn's older sister that runs away.
• Boo Connell: She is referred to as a hippie and is always there for Caitlyn.
• Rina Swain: Rina is the girl that loves to party. Throughout the book she tries gain her friendship back with Caitlin but it doesnt't quite work because Caitlin feels like she needs to be with Rogerson all the time. Rina is Caitlin's original best friend. She is a smart, beautiful, popular, and a funny cheerleader. All the girls hate her, because they are jealous and wish that they were her because all the boys want to date her.
• Mike Evans: Mike is a player from the football team. Rina, Caitlin's friend, tries to set them up together but things never worked out because Caitlin was head over heels for Rogerson.
• Adam: Cass' boyfriend, Adam works at the set of the Lamont Whipper Show. The show is in the same category as Jerry Springer. Cass follows him to New York City and works at the set in order to be with Adam, instead of going to college at Yale.
• Corinna: One of Rogersons 'clients' and soon becomes Caitlins best friends. Corinna understands Caitlin better than anyone else and that's why Caitlin enjoys being with her so much. She works at a nearby Applebees not bringing in much money. Her and her boyfriend, David, throughout the book go through a tough breakup.
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• Lauren
• Wade
• Stewart Connell
• Charles
• Mr. Biscoe
• Chad
• Barbie
• Dr. Marshall
• Kelly Brandt
• Melinda Trudale
• Bill Skerrit
• Walter
• Jack
• Margaret O'Koren
• Mr. Lensing
• Jason Packer
• Principal Hawthorne
• Richard Spellman
• Buckley
• Eliza Drake
• Adam
• Lindsay White
• Matthew
• Jeff
• Mrs. Biscoe
• Mrs. Garver
• Dave
• Chelsea Robbins
• Mingus
• Sabrina

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• “"I can feel myself coming up and not drowning just to take a breath on my own."”

  Caitlin

• “I had learned there was no room for chaos theory or chance in the carefully choreographed world of jock love.”

  Caitlin

• “"I have to go," I said, buttoning my shirt so fast I forgot to put back on my bra, which I had stuck in the pocket of my cheerleader jacket. One tumble off the pyramid and look how far I'd fallen.”

  Caitlin

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• She was just some strange girl who’d tumbled off a pyramid, falling into a dream, and now waited, in a beautiful dress, like some princess in a forgotten fairy tale, for someone to come save her.

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• I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he had been all I’d had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved ones, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

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• Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn’t understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm’s length or farther away.

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• I could tell her, I told myself. I could tell her right now and fix this. I could say that he hits me and I hate cheerleading and I miss Cass but I know why she left and I wish I could make everything better but I can‘t, I can’t, I can’t even tell you where it hurts, not now.

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• I looked at her hard, right in her eyes, and dared her in that one second to see something else in me. Not the bruises, which I could hide well, or the shame, which I hid better. But something else at the very heart of me that she should have seen from miles and miles away.

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• The other option—that somehow, losing me would be less of a loss, never as hard as the one already suffered—was something I pushed out of my head each time it rose up, nagging.

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• California
• New York

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1. Sarah Dessen (Author)

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• Books › Teens › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Dessen, Sarah
• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Violence
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction

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