Change of Heart - Softcover

Maurer, Shari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530841003 ISBN 13: 9781530841004

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

When you’re 16 years old, it never occurs to you that you might die. Emmi Miller’s got a fabulous life. She has tons of friends, does great in school and is an all-star soccer player who played in Europe last summer. It even looks like Sam Hunter, a totally cute baseball player, might be interested in her. And then she gets a virus. No biggy, right? Until the virus goes to her heart and weakens it so much that, without a transplant, Emmi will die. Will Emmi get a heart in time? Is Sam too good to be true? What about her new friend Abe, who has also had a transplant and guides her through these scary times — is he just being supportive or is there more going on between them? And will Emmi realize it before it’s too late?

About this title

About the Author

Shari Maurer did her undergraduate work at Duke University, studying English and Film and Video. In graduate school at NYU, she realized that while her Dramatic Writing classmates were all writing movies, sitcoms or serious plays, she kept drifting toward "After School Specials" and she decided to do her internship at Children's Television Workshop. She wound up staying there for six years, working on Sesame Street productions around the world. After her daughter was born with a heart defect, Shari got together with a friend to write "The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects," which was published by Random House's Three Rivers Press and named one of Booklist's "Top Health Books of 2001." Shari segued into teen fiction with her novel, "Change of Heart," about a 16 year old soccer player who needs a heart transplant. Both of these books were made easier to write because Shari's husband, Mat, who she met in summer camp at 17, is a cardiologist. Together they have worked with Donate Life and the New York Organ Donor Network to bring awareness to the need for people to register to be organ donors. In addition to writing young adult novels, Shari spent two years as the "Moms Talk" columnist for the New City Patch. She got her inspiration for the column, as well as from her books, from her three children, Lissie, Josh and Eric. Her ongoing involvement with the cardiac community through the publication of both of her books has led her to become the Patient Support and Outreach Coordinator for the Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation. Her new novel, "Callie's Sister," will debut Spring/Summer 2016. Shari can be found on the web at www.sharimaurer.com

Review

"...Emmi is an authentically drawn protagonist. Her intimate, lively, first-person narrative...details the physical and emotional effects of her heart disease...Readers will find Emmi and her experiences absorbing." --Booklist

"A gripping, moving, and honest story about everything that really matters in life. Shari Maurer takes a scary experience that happens to very few young adults and makes it both universal and uplifting." --Daria Snadowsky, author of Anatomy of a Boyfriend
"An emotional roller coaster, exploring all the different ways a heart can be broken--and repaired--as a star athlete comes to terms with love, loss, and the startling realization that even at sixteen, no one's truly immortal." --Barbara Caridad Ferrer, author of Adios To My Old Life, a RITA Winner & 2009 YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults
"Shari Maurer handles very tricky subject matter with sensitivity and grace." --Amy Goldman Koss, author of Side Effects, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, a New York Public Library Recommended List for Young Adults & a Kirkus Best Book of the Year

"Shari Maurer handles very tricky subject matter with sensitivity and grace." --Amy Goldman Koss, author of Side Effects, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, a New York Public Library Recommended List for Young Adults & a Kirkus Best Book of the Year

"A gripping, moving, and honest story about everything that really matters in life. Shari Maurer takes a scary experience that happens to very few young adults and makes it both universal and uplifting." --Daria Snadowsky, author of Anatomy of a Boyfriend
"An emotional roller coaster, exploring all the different ways a heart can be broken--and repaired--as a star athlete comes to terms with love, loss, and the startling realization that even at sixteen, no one's truly immortal." --Barbara Caridad Ferrer, author of Adios To My Old Life, a RITA Winner & 2009 YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults
"Shari Maurer handles very tricky subject matter with sensitivity and grace." --Amy Goldman Koss, author of Side Effects, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, a New York Public Library Recommended List for Young Adults & a Kirkus Best Book of the Year

"Shari Maurer handles very tricky subject matter with sensitivity and grace." --Amy Goldman Koss, author of Side Effects, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, a New York Public Library Recommended List for Young Adults & a Kirkus Best Book of the Year

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1530841003
• ISBN 13: 9781530841004
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 224