Summary for 1st one-third of Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

Auden's mom and dad were divorced, and she lived with her mom and she was a professor. Her mom would have other people from school over and they would be talking about things to do with school and her dad is remarried and his new wife had a baby, Thisbe. One day, Auden decided that she was going to go stay with her dad and his wife, Heidi, just to be somewhere different for once and she also wanted to see the beach that they lived by. When Auden walked into her dad's house she saw his new wife, Heidi, sitting on the couch with the baby screaming, while his dad was sitting in his office writing like he normally does. Then she decided she was hungry so she asked her dad what was for supper and he said he didn't know so he gave her money to get food at one of the stores, and he told her to go ask what Heidi wanted. When she asked her she said that she was going to make her a nice meal but she was too busy with Thisbe. When she got back she took her Heidi's food to her since the baby was still crying. After a while, she then heard Heidi crying with Thisbe because she was so tired and had been up with her for a long time, so Auden went back to Thisbe's room and told Heidi to go get some sleep and that she would take care of Thisbe for the rest of the night. The next day Auden's mom called and she was asking her how much her dad was helping with the new baby.
I think it is kind of weird how Auden's dad doesn't help his wife, Heidi, with the new baby and that he is just in his office most of the day writing things.

When I started reading this book I feel right into it. After reading just a few pages out of this book I think I would enjoy reading a lot of other books written by Sarah Dessen. I feel angry that Auden's dad would not help Heidi with the baby when she was obviously struggling with helping Thisbe calm down and stop crying. He just sits in his office all day and doesn't bother about going to see if Heidi needs help. Auden was the first one to go give Heidi a break and let her get some sleep.