num_pages: 352
description: Obviously Im not what most people would describe as happy. But that has nothing to do with anything. Happiness is not a priority. Survival is.Alvie Fitz doesnt fit in and she doesnt care. Shes spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy.If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps shell be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails shell become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home.All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend Chance the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. She can bide her time with him until her emancipation. Humans are overrated anyway. Then she meets Stanley a boy who might be even stranger than she isa boy who walks with a cane who turns up every day with a new injury whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without even meaning to she finds herself getting close to him. But Alvie remembers what happened to the last person she truly cared about.Her past stalks her with every step and it has sharp teeth. But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her maybe shell have a chance at happiness after all.
language: English
title: When My Heart Joins the Thousand
publisher: HarperTeen