"Along for The Ride" Sarah Dessen

The book that I started to read is called, "Along for The Ride" by Sarah Dessen. It's about a girl named Auden who goes to visit her dad, her stepmom, and their new baby for the summer. Her stepmom is having a hard time adjusting to having a newborn in the house, and needs a little help from anyone she can get. The whole point of Auden's trip to visit her dad once more before she goes off to college, but her visit doesn't go as she plans. She meets two guys that she doesn't know which one she really likes, her stepmom get's her a job at her store, her dad never seems to be around anymore, and she's starting to learn what being a real teenage girl feels like. Growing up, Auden wasn't raised like a kid. She would go to a lot of museums, plays, and adult parties, with her parents. She wouldn't play with barbies, have playdates, ride bikes, it just wasn't something Auden was raised to do. Auden was raised almost like a young adult. Now that she's working at her stepmom's new store, she starts learning all the secrets to being a teenage girl, and starts having her own secrets.


I think that Auden is going to fall in love with her dad's new family. She has a little stepsister named Thisbe that she only seems to know how to calm down. I feel like she's going to start to become more used to everything and want to stay longer, maybe even find a college closer to them. I can already tell that Auden is getting used to the people, her job, and everything. She starts becoming more known with the girls that work with her at the store, and get's to know them better. Auden isn't the type to open up about everything she's been through in her life, but maybe she'll find a friend she can really trust to give in and let everything out. For Auden, it takes time for her to trust someone. She's not really the person to just meet some body and tell them everything about her. She has to get to know them a little better, and I think that by being that way, she's going to meet someone really special to her.