Along For The Ride

"Let me guess," he said, "You want to learn to ride a bike, and it can't wait until morining."

Auden's social life has been...microscopic. Less than microscopic. Invisible.
And now that she's out of High School, she's beginning to think that she missed out on a lot.

Living with her dad and her step-mom, Heidi, and their new little baby, Thisbe, for the summer ins't exactly ideal, but whatever. It has to be done. No choice. It's either that or staying with her mom and her visiting college students. ew. :(

But then she meets Eli, the secretive,mysertious boy who rides a bike at the end of the boardwalk when no one's watching. They embark on her "quest" every night to try and do things she missed in her past years. "Like riding a bike?"

As she and Eli open up to each other, Auden opens up to the world and people. She stops sterotyping. A new place, a new Auden. A better Auden.

Though her mother isn't happy, Auden and Eli teach eachother a lot.

"Failing sucks. But its better than the alternative."
"Which is?"
"Not even trying." Now he did look at me, staright on. "Life's short, you know?"

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We all luh-v Sarah Dessen's books (The Truth ABout Forever, Just LIsten, This Lullaby, etc) and this novel is no exception. Check it out! ;)