Along for the Ride

Author(s): Sarah Dessen Publisher: Viking Juvenile Format: Hardcover List Price:  Rs. 619 Category: Love & Romance ISBN-13: 978-0670011940 ISBN-10: 0670011940 Language: English Pages: 383 Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches Age Range: All Ages

Overview:

Dessen has built a well-deserved reputation for delicately depicting teen girls in turmoil. Her latest title showcases a socially awkward young woman who seeks solace in the comforting rigidity of academic success. Auden is about to start college in the fall, and decides to escape her control-freak professor mom to spend the summer with her novelist father, his new young wife, and their brand-new baby daughter, Thisbe. Over the course of the summer, Auden tackles many new projects: learning to ride a bike, making real connections with peers, facing the emotional fallout of her parents’ divorce, distancing herself from her mother, and falling in love with Eli, a fellow insomniac bicyclist recovering from his own traumas. The cover may mislead readers, as despite the body language of the girl in pink and the hunky blue-jeaned boy balanced on a bike, this is no slight romance: there’s real substance here.