Title: Along for the ride
Description: It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother. Then she meets Eli, an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town. Together they embark on parallel quests: for Auden, to experience the carefree teenage life she’s been denied; for Eli, to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend.In her signature pitch-perfect style, Sarah Dessen explores the hearts of two lonely people learning to connect.
Subjects: Change in fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Dating (Social customs), Stepfamilies, Babies in fiction, Divorce, Juvenile Fiction, Divorce in fiction, Fiction, Interpersonal relations in fiction, nyt:paperback_books=2011-04-09, Interpersonal relations, New York Times bestseller, Babies, Stepfamilies in fiction, Change, Juvenile fiction, Infants, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Marriage & Divorce, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance, Children's fiction, Stepfamilies, fiction, Infants, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Divorce, fiction