Independent Reading; Along for the Ride; Book Recommendations

In the book I'm reading called Along for the Ride, the theme is don't make judgments based on a decision made in the past in which people's perspectives could have differed. This is because before Auden went to go visit with her dad, she was most excited to see just her dad, not her step mom Heidi. But throughout her stay, Heidi is the one she's sees the most. All her dad does is work on his next story. And he doesn't help with the baby. It's just Heidi who does all the work. And Auden is starting to notice that and she starts gaining appreciation for Heidi. She is starting to regret her judgments that she made, and now feels guilty for doing them.

A book that I would recommend that has the same theme has this book is my summer reading book by Hannah Harrington, called Speechless. In Speechless, a girl named Chelsea Knot has trouble with judging people without getting to know them first. But once she became unpopular, she started to meet these people that she had once thought of as being "lower than her" just because they were less popular, but they turned out to be really nice people, supporting her through low times in her life, and they soon become best friends. And Chelsea relates to Auden because she regrets these judgments that she made about these really nice people.