" Along for the Ride"

Written By Sarah Dessen



What do you do when you're in the position where your parents are both smart, and they expect so much of you? Auden is that girl. The only difference is that her parents got a divorce, and her mom's the only one who pushes her to do well in school. When she and her mom get into a fight, she goes to stay with her father for the summer. While there she finally makes friends and, for the first time in her life, doesn’t focus on school. She also meets a boy who has gone through a hard time in the last year. Will she and her mom make up? Will she get into college? What’s going to happen with the boy? Favorite part-- the bicycle metaphor. The focus of the book is the precarious balance between school and friends. 

My rating: 10/10. This is one of my all-time favorite Sarah Dessen books. I couldn't stop reading it. It was written really well, stayed with the storyline and never got off message. It's amazing!

-Lynn

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