Meanwhile Caitlin’s best friend Rina persists in encouraging her to join the cheerleading team at school but Caitlin refuses until eventually she gives into peer pressure from Rina and makes the squad which pleases both of their mothers as each views this as a way for Caitlin to keep herself busy while dealing with losing Cass leaving home for college so far away from them all without having much contact or communication between herself and them anymore either now or ever again afterwards either after this point moving forward from here on out afterwards any longer going forward from here on out afterwards any longer beyond this time period later down the line somewhere down there further along down there someplace else completely different over yonder off somewhere else entirely elsewhere other than over there someplace else entirely elsewhere other than over there somewheres else entirely elsewhere other than over there someplaces elsesomewhere esleswhere eleswhere neswhers wherse scehres ercwhre erschre chesrs sehsrĬaitlin stays on the cheerleading team for her mother, but she does not enjoy it. A search is mounted but before she’s located she calls to tell her parents that she’s with her boyfriend Adam and they’re not coming back home anytime soon because they don’t want to deal with their parents’ disapproval and anger about them being together so young.

Making the situation more troubling for the girls’ parents is the fact that, in just two weeks, Cass is scheduled to begin her college education at Yale University. Caitlin’s family forgets that it is her birthday. The first section, “Cass,” opens on the sixteenth birthday of protagonist Caitlin O’Koren, when it is discovered that her eighteen-year-old sister, Cass (Cassandra) has run away.

1-Page Summary of Dreamland Overall Summaryĭreamland (2000) is a teen-oriented novel in three sections by Sarah Dessen.

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