How to Build a Heart

How to Build a Heart - Paperback

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How to Build a Heart

How to Build a Heart - Paperback

by Maria Padian
$10.95
Sale price  $10.95 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Maria Padian (Author)

This heartfelt novel follows one young woman's journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her life--family, money, school, and love--begin to overlap and tangle.

All sixteen-year-old Izzy Crawford wants is to feel like she really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine, died in Iraq six years ago, and Izzy's moved to a new town nearly every year since, far from the help of her extended family in North Carolina and Puerto Rico. When Izzy's hardworking mom moves their small family to Virginia, all her dreams start clicking into place. She likes her new school--even if Izzy is careful to keep her scholarship-student status hidden from her well-to-do classmates and her new athletic and popular boyfriend. And best of all: Izzy's family has been selected by Habitat for Humanity to build and move into a brand-new house. Izzy is this close to the community and permanence she's been searching for, until all the secret pieces of her life begin to collide.

How to Build a Heart is the story of Izzy's journey to find her place in the world and her discovery that the choices we make and the people we love ultimately define us and bring us home.

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: February 02, 2021
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: How to Build a Heart
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 12
ISBN9781643750880
Author Maria Padian
PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Maria Padian

MARIA PADIAN is the author of Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best and Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress, which was an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults. A graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Virginia, she has also attended Oxford University and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Born in New York but raised in New Jersey, she now lives in Maine with her family and their Australian shepherd, and was inspired by the events in her community to write Out of Nowhere.

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