Ride wit’ me by Katina King

2006 Young Diamond Books

main character:  Mercedes Clinton

Mercedes is home from boarding school for the summer.  She’s greeting with a surprise 16th birthday party, a surprise gift just for this daddy’s girl and she soon meet’s the young man she wants to ride wit’ for the summer, if not longer.  Even in this fairy-tale type story where Mercedes seems to have everything she wants, she is forbidden to have the one thing she really wants:  true love.  Mercedes has some important decisions to make.  In this quick paced novel, nothing is predictable.  Just like in life, we want to believe true love endures but we keep reading to the end to find out whether or not Mercedes will get her man.