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By Your Side parent’s guide: what’s inside
LGBTQ+ themes
Substance use
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A note for parents
By Your Side is a contemporary young adult romance that centers on two teenagers getting to know each other during an accidental library lockdown. The story emphasizes connection, breaking stereotypes, and looking beyond surface judgments, with themes of honesty and courage. While there are references to a past fight and juvie, sexual tension, and some mild language, the content is relatively age-appropriate for older teens seeking realistic YA romance.
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From the publisher
An irresistible story from Kasie West that explores the timeless question: What do you do when you fall for the person you least expect? When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn’t think things could get any worse. But that’s before she realizes that Dax Mille... An irresistible story from Kasie West that explores the timeless question: What do you do when you fall for the person you least expect? When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn’t think things could get any worse. But that’s before she realizes that Dax Miller is locked in with her. Autumn doesn’t know much about Dax except that he’s trouble. Between the rumors about the fight he was in (and that brief stint in juvie that followed it) and his reputation as a loner, he’s not exactly the ideal person to be stuck with. Still, she just keeps reminding herself that it is only a matter of time before Jeff, her almost-boyfriend, realizes he left her in the library and comes to rescue her. Only he doesn’t come. No one does. Instead it becomes clear that Autumn is going to have to spend the next couple of days living off vending-machine food and making conversation with a boy who clearly wants nothing to do with her. Except there is more to Dax than meets the eye. As he and Autumn at first grudgingly, and then not so grudgingly, open up to each other, Autumn is struck by their surprising connection. But can their feelings for each other survive once the weekend is over and Autumn’s old life, and old love interest, threaten to pull her from Dax’s side?
Shelved under
- Young Adult Fiction
- Young Adult
- Dating (Social customs)
- Fiction
- Children's fiction
- Dating (social customs), fiction
- Friendship, fiction
- Love, fiction
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ISBN 9780062455864 · HarperTeen