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Title details for How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian - Available

How to Build a Heart

by Maria Padian
Almarie Guerra
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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.

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  • Release date

    February 1, 2020

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781980055587
      • File size: 276542 KB
      • Duration: 09:36:07

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bilingual narrator Almarie Guerra delivers an enjoyable portrayal of 16-year-old half-Puerto-Rican Izzy Crawford--whose family has moved from town to town since the death of her father. Attending a private school on scholarship and living in a trailer park, Izzy tries hard to keep her family life private. But when her family is chosen by Habitat for Humanity to receive a new house, as excited as she is about finally putting down roots, she also struggles with the impending collision of the secret pieces of her life. As Izzy works to discover what truly defines family and home, Guerra gives each character a unique voice, making them sound fully authentic, especially in her natural shifts between English and Spanish accents. E.P. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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