Pub Date: February 6, 2018
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2017938997
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 14 to UP
Physical Info: 1.30" H x 8.40" L x 5.80" W ( 0.90 lbs) 352 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Romance | Contemporary | Social Themes | Depression | Physical and Emotional Abuse see also Social Themes Sexual | Animals | General | Disability | Coming of Age | Sexual Abuse | Family | General see also headings under Social Themes | Girls and Women | Loners and Outcasts
Description: A heartbreaking debut romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart.
Brief description:
A . J . Steiger has lived her entire life in the Chicagoland area. Cathedral of Bones is her first book for middle grade readers, and she is also the author of the young adult book When My Heart Joins the Thousand.
Review Quotes:
"At last! A.J. Steiger's When My Heart Joins the Thousand offers a love story between two atypical characters with breathtaking honesty about all the messy aspects of real love--sex, compatibility, trust, and most of all, honesty." - Cammie McGovern, author of Say What You Will
"A gorgeous love story of depth and raw emotion that beautifully dismantles the ugly perceptions of autism." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[Alvie's] meltdowns and behavioral quirks add dimension to what is a fully realized portrayal of a person living with Asperger's... This is a love story that could also appeal to adult readers. Their love is hard-fought and deservedly earned." - School Library Journal (starred review)