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