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Gr 9-Up Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans is spending her summer with Homes from the Heart, a teen volunteer organization that is rebuilding a home in Bailey, TN, after the town is hit by a major tornado. Harper, an LA resident, has never built anything, but she wants to help, and she also wants to get away from the havoc in her own life. Her father and stepmother are getting divorced, her sometime-boyfriend Gabriel, with whom she is sexually active, is indifferent, and her beloved stepsister, Tess, is increasingl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Knowing nothing about house-building but loads about how a home can fall to pieces, seventeen-year-old Harper volunteers to help build a house for a family that lost theirs in a tornado. The distance from L.A. to Bailey, Tennessee, isn't enough to escape her grief for her broken-up family and her frustration with her friend Gabriel. Soon, however, she finds friendship and more with Teddy, son of the fam...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seventeen-year-old Harper volunteers to help build a house for a family that lost theirs in a tornado. Sections alternate between "...Log In or Sign Up to Read More