Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Novel Reflection: Along For The Ride - Sarah Dessen

   

  Auden's life hasn't quite been the same since the divorce of parents she hasn't experience a typical childhood, and she no longer sleeps at night, she roams to the towns 24/7 coffee shop. It's summer time and Auden is spending time with her father and his new wife and baby in the town of Colby, South Carolina. She meets a Eli, a mysterious bike boy that she feels drawn to. She figures out that Eli also doesn't sleep, and he begins to show her around, and walks her through all the things she missed out from her teenage years.
     
       She begins to love her new baby sister and help out her step mother, but that isn't what her mom wants. Her mom has ended anything that has to do with her dad's business viewing them as a pain in the neck, and Auden's growing fond of her new step mother and sister. Auden goes against all of what her moms wants and decides to ditch the endless hours of college prep and goes out and life her all the years that she missed out, but could would Auden's mother ever approve of her actions, or will she even realize that it makes her the slight bit of happiness out of all those years?

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