Book 1 Project

Book 1 Project

Along for the Ride

By: Sarah Dessen

Faryaal Zindani

Bell: 3

My idea?

The book I read for book one is Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen. The book is about a summer romance between two characters. A big part of the book includes a bike shop. My idea is to remodel the bike shop because it has a big impact in the book. The bike shop will contain names and quotes on the wall that give the visitors an idea about what the book is about and become more interested in it. The bike shop played a big role in the book because the two main characters (Auden and Eli) spent a lot of time there. It will also include a model of a bike that the two characters rode in the book and the bike on the cover of the book.

3 Quotes?

The bike shop is the place where Eli works, he is also a pro biker but quit recently because of his best friend’s death. In support of that they named the bike shop Abe’s Bikes. “Abe’s Bikes,” I read off the front. “It does have a nice ring to it.” “Don’t you think?” she replied, sticking her head over the edge to look down a t me again. “He’s freaking out that everything has to be perfect for the reopening.” In that quote, Maggie (Auden’s friend) is telling her how they finally renamed the bike shop, and how it is the perfect name because it shows that Eli is growing over his friends Abe’s death and moving on in his life.

In the book Eli doesn’t like talking to people because he is still going through his best friend’s death, in the following quote you will notice how he only likes working in the bike shop and Auden starts to like him. “I was still watching Eli, though, as he bent over the pink bike, adjusting one of the pedals.  “Like I said”, he was saying, “This is a really good starter bike.”  “She wants to learn”, her mom was saying running a hand over her daughters head.” (pg. 240) In the quote you can see that Eli values his bike shop and Auden is starting to notice him a lot more and possibly like him.

Towards the end of the book Auden tries to learn how to ride a bike to prove to Eli that she can if she wanted to.  She practices everyday by the bike store and eventually goes in to buy a bike one day.   “Bike?” Leah said. “What does a bike have to do with any of this?” “I just bought one,” I told her. “Because she also just learned how to ride one,” Maggie explained. “I’ve been teaching her every morning on the sly. She never knew before.” (pg.354) the previous quote explains how Auden has been working hard to ride a bike for a long time to make her and Eli’s relationship closer.

How will it work?

As you can see the Bike shop plays a big role in the book for multiple reasons. My idea will work because if people visit the model of the bike shop they will know more about the book, become more interested in it, and possibly aware more people about it. This idea will allow and encourage people who are already fans of the book to stay connected because when the people who have already read the book will reminisce about how good the book was and notice all the things they read in the book and how it relates so well to the bike shop. If people keep on going to the bike shop then other people who haven’t read the book will read it and take a visit to the bike shop.