When We Ride

A Novel

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Pub Date 25 Mar 2025 | Archive Date 28 Feb 2025
W. W. Norton & Company | Norton Young Readers

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Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse.

Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That’s why she gave him her car.

Diego’s best friend, Lawson, needs a ride—because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego’s not carrying, not selling, it’s cool. It’s just weed.

But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened. As the lines between dealer and driver blur, everything Diego has worked for is jeopardized, and he faces a deadly reckoning with the choices he and his best friend have made.

Award-winning memoirist and poet Rex Ogle’s searing first novel-in-verse is an unforgettable story of the power and price of loyalty.

About the Author: Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award; Punching Bag, a NYPL Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award; and the YA memoir, Road Home

Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse.

Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781324052821
PRICE US$18.99 (USD)
PAGES 336

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