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Home / Fiction & Poetry / Fiction / Young Adult / This Boy I Hardly Know

This Boy I Hardly Know

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Sixteen-year-old Dusty is smart, talented and fiercely protective of her younger sister Poppy. They’ve been moved from foster carer to foster carer, until one day the unthinkable happens: Dusty and Poppy are separated. Dusty is sent to a children’s home in a different town; Poppy to a family hundreds of miles away. No one can say when they will see each other again. Devastated but determined, Dusty has to find a way to reach Poppy. Everything seems stacked against her until she meets beautiful, fearless Cooper at the home, and together they decide to run. What follows is a heart-breaking love story, road movie, tense police hunt, and hope-filled celebration of sibling bonds and kindness, which shines a light on a failing care sector where a quarter of children are living apart from their siblings.

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Scheduled for publication on 7th May, 2026
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SKU: 9781839137839 Category: Young Adult Tags: Adoption & fostering, Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: siblings (Children's / Teenage), Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage) Publisher/imprint : Andersen Press
Page count : 336
Published on 7th May, 2026
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Additional information

Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
Author

Heathfield, Lisa

Publisher

Andersen Press

Imprint

Andersen Press

Cover

Paperback

Pages

336

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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