

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.
