Along for the Ride
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Once and For All comes a story of a summer filled with new family dynamics and unexpected connections.
“Beautifully captures that sense of summer as a golden threshold between past regrets and future unknowns.”—The Washington Post
“As with all Dessen’s books, [this] is a must-have”—VOYA, starred review
Nights have always been Auden’s time, her chance to escape everything that’s going on around her.
Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide.
Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen. . . .
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Studious good girl Auden, named for the poet, makes a snap decision to spend her summer before college at her father's beach house rather than with her mother, a professor whose bad habits include male grad students. Auden's parents divorced three years earlier, a split she's not yet over. Her remarried father has already produced another heir, a colicky baby named Thisbe (after a tragic figure from Shakespeare), with his young wife, Heidi, who owns a boutique. Feeling sympathy for stressed-out Heidi, Auden agrees to do the shop's bookkeeping, providing her with an instant social circle the teenage clerks plus the boys from the neighboring bike rental, including hunky, wounded Eli. Both night owls, Auden and Eli bond when he coaxes her to experience childhood activities bowling, food fights, learning to ride a bike that her insufferable parents never bothered to provide. Auden's thoughtful observations make for enjoyable reading this is solid if not "top shelf" Dessen: another summer of transformation in which the heroine learns that growing up means "propelling yourself forward, into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time." Ages 12 up.
