All the Stars Align
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Publisher Description
All the Stars Align is the magical love story that is Taylor Swift’s Enchanted meets Cyrano, from the author of Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal.
All the women in Piper’s family know their true love at first sight, complete with butterflies, heart eyes, and a gut instinct. The kind of fated love that lasts forever. Piper grew up with her ancestors' epic love stories repeated like fairy tales, and yearns for the day she’ll start her own. Already singled out in her family due to her physical disability, Piper collects a second strike against her when her parents announce their divorce, which convinces her family that she’s doomed.
When she finally finds her true love at a party, she’s more determined than ever to attain her love story and earn a spot in her family. But after completely botching their first meeting, she realizes that she’ll need help from her best friend Leo, who is sort of a love expert. The catch—he and Piper haven’t talked in six months, since he needed a “break” from their friendship.
To win over the love of her life and a place in her family, Piper must convince Leo to teach her his ways. And it’s all going as planned…until Leo confesses his own love for Piper. Now, she must decide: will fate choose her love, or will love choose her fate?
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High school senior Piper Hadley grew up knowing that all the women in her family have been blessed by Fate with the ability to identify their true love at first sight. But because of her "whole disabled thing"—she has nine fingers, one kidney, and scoliosis—Hadley thinks Fate never visited her. Family drama surrounding her parents' recent divorce (of which the Hadley women disapprove) and her aunts' insistence that Piper take over running the family jewelry store, Hadley's Treasures, in her mother's stead add further layers of tumult to Piper's home life. Though she longs to forge her own path, she also struggles with guilt, believing she's at fault for her parents' split and her relatives' discontent. Then Piper meets "the one." A newbie at romance, she asks estranged BFF Leo—whom she hasn't spoken to in months—for help, a decision that turns out to be more complicated than she expected. While Piper's single-minded determination to find her true love can feel somewhat repetitive, Schreiber (Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal) empathetically relays the protagonist's vulnerability and innocent approach to romance. It's a meandering, delicate family drama about embracing the chaos of love and life. Main characters read as white. Ages 13–up.
