When my heart joins the thousand
Record details
- ISBN: 0062656481
- ISBN: 9780062656483
- ISBN: 0062656481 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780062656483 : PAP
- ISBN: 0062656481
- ISBN: 9780062656483
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Physical Description:
338 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Alvie Fitz has spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Her only friend is Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. Then she meets Stanley, who walks with a cane, whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without meaning to, they start getting close. Does Alvie have a chance at happiness, after all?"--Jacket flap. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, High School, 2022. |
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Genre: | Romance fiction. Love stories. Young adult fiction. |
Available copies
- 22 of 22 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Killingworth Library Association.
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- 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Killingworth Library Association | YA FIC STE (Text) | 33420147397435 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
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Summary
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
A heartbreaking debut YA romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart. Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend, Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. She can bide her time with him until her emancipation. Humans are overrated anyway. Then she meets Stanley, a boy who might be even stranger than she is--a boy who walks with a cane, who turns up every day with a new injury, whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without even meaning to, she finds herself getting close to him. But Alvie remembers what happened to the last person she truly cared about. Her past stalks her with every step, and it has sharp teeth. But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her, maybe she'll have a chance at happiness after all.