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Along for the Ride : a Novel

Author: Dessen, Sarah

Follett Number: 0304JB8
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Speak, c2009, p2011
Format: 399 pages : map ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-241556-6
ISBN-10: 0-14-241556-1
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Babies Fiction
Change Fiction
Dating (Social Customs) Fiction
Divorce Fiction
Interpersonal Relations Fiction
Stepfamilies Fiction
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.

From the publisher:
From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and For All Nights have always been Auden's time, her chance to escape everything that's going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen. . . . "As with all Dessen's books, this] is a must-have" --VOYA, starred review Sarah Dessen is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contributions to YA literature, as well as the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Books by Sarah Dessen: That Summer Someone Like You Keeping the Moon Dreamland This Lullaby The Truth About Forever Just Listen Lock and Key Along for the Ride What Happened to Goodbye The Moon and More Saint Anything Once and for All

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