Joined at the Joints
By Marissa Eller
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has spent the summer baking--pies are better than people, and they don't trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, she certainly doesn't expect Grant.
Grant is CUTE: class-clown cute, messy-hair cute, will-always-text-you-back-cute. The fact that they share the same diagnosis--juvenile rheumatoid arthritis--is only one part of their instant connection.
But just because Grant understands Ivy's pain doesn't mean he can take it away. And she wishes he could--because it's getting worse. Ivy has always tried to appear pain-free, but between treatment plans, symptom management, and struggling with medical self-advocacy, being sick feels increasingly difficult. Will Ivy's delicious new romance pan out? Can she keep up a façade of "normality," whatever that is, for him and for the world...or should she be brave and let it go?
Hardcover
By Marissa Eller
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has spent the summer baking--pies are better than people, and they don't trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, she certainly doesn't expect Grant.
Grant is CUTE: class-clown cute, messy-hair cute, will-always-text-you-back-cute. The fact that they share the same diagnosis--juvenile rheumatoid arthritis--is only one part of their instant connection.
But just because Grant understands Ivy's pain doesn't mean he can take it away. And she wishes he could--because it's getting worse. Ivy has always tried to appear pain-free, but between treatment plans, symptom management, and struggling with medical self-advocacy, being sick feels increasingly difficult. Will Ivy's delicious new romance pan out? Can she keep up a façade of "normality," whatever that is, for him and for the world...or should she be brave and let it go?
Hardcover
By Marissa Eller
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has spent the summer baking--pies are better than people, and they don't trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, she certainly doesn't expect Grant.
Grant is CUTE: class-clown cute, messy-hair cute, will-always-text-you-back-cute. The fact that they share the same diagnosis--juvenile rheumatoid arthritis--is only one part of their instant connection.
But just because Grant understands Ivy's pain doesn't mean he can take it away. And she wishes he could--because it's getting worse. Ivy has always tried to appear pain-free, but between treatment plans, symptom management, and struggling with medical self-advocacy, being sick feels increasingly difficult. Will Ivy's delicious new romance pan out? Can she keep up a façade of "normality," whatever that is, for him and for the world...or should she be brave and let it go?
Hardcover
Traditionally published by Holiday House, an independent publisher.
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