How to Build a Heart

Name: How to Build a Heart
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Maria Padian
ISBN: 9781980055747

Author: Maria Padian

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/28/2020

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Social Themes

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on January 24, 2020

My friends at Algonquin Books told me about How to Build a Heart about a year ago, and I have been highly anticipating it ever since. You see, like many of us, as a sixteen-year-old I felt lost. My family had moved the year before, one of many moves. I am drawn to stories like this because they are......more

Goodreads review by BookNightOwl on January 28, 2020

How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian deals with a lot of issues. Friendship, families, mother daughter relationships, sibling relationships, loss of a parent and many more. This story really touched my heart and brought a lot of different emotions out of me. It made me happy and it made me sad. I lo......more

Goodreads review by Gayathri on May 19, 2020

Read the full review at Elgee Writes My thoughts I was glad that romance was not the main focus of How to Build a Heart, even though it was a romance book. It is a family drama/reunion story, and I loved it as much. I liked the older females in the book and Izzy’s relationship with her newfound cousi......more

Goodreads review by chloe on September 29, 2019

review to come! i loved this so much.......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on September 19, 2019

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. This YA novel is well written and will appeal to young teens and older "teens at heart" who worry about fitting in, falling in love and finding (and keeping) a stable home. In this story, Iz......more