When We Ride - A Novel

Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighbourhood. 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 jeopardised, 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 for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don't Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Product details

• Authors: Rex Ogle
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2025
• EAN: 9781324052821
• ISBN: 978-1-324-05282-1
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 218 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 502 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Urban & Street Lit