{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "It\u2019s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents\u2019 divorce\u2014or 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\u2019s 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."}, "covers": [7019430, 6219775], "key": "/works/OL15024568W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL22339A"}}], "title": "Along for the ride", "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", "Divorce, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 19, "revision": 19, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-03-20T03:40:22.751200"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-09-19T09:39:22.201749"}}