18th Birthday Countdown Giveaway #2: Heart with Joy by Steve Cushman

Heart with Joy by Steve Cushman
Publisher: Blair, John F. Publisher
Pub. Date: September 28th, 2010
Pages: 200
Age Level: 14+

Synopsis via Goodreads
In Heart With Joy, fifteen-year-old Julian Hale’s life is turned upside down when his mother suddenly moves from North Carolina to Venice, Florida under the pretense of running her parents’ motel and finishing the novel she has been working on for years. While Julian has always been closer to his mother and wants to go with her, she tells him he has to stay with his father until the end of the school year.

Six weeks after his mother leaves, Julian’s father decides to run a marathon. This surprises Julian because he has never seen his father exercise, but once he agrees to help him train the two develop the sort of close relationship they’ve never had before. Also, with the help of an elderly neighbor, Julian learns that the most important thing in life is to follow your heart. And Julian’s heart leads him to a passion for cooking and a young cashier at the local grocery store. By the end of the novel, Julian is forced to choose between staying with his father and going to live with his mother.

Heart With Joy is an uplifting coming of age novel about cooking and bird watching, about writing and pottery, and about falling in love and the sacrifices we all make. But ultimately, it’s about the importance of following your heart and trusting that it will take you where you need to go.

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Contest Info

Prize:
~Thanks to Steve Cushman, one winner will receive a copy of his YA novel, Heart with Joy.

Contest Rules:
~You must FILL OUT THE FORM to be entered.
~Contest is open Internationally so everyone can enter!
~Contest will run until 11:59PM EST on November 15th. Winner will then be announced on the 16th, my birthday. Winner will then have 48 hours to reply to my email.

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