# Hearts Unbroken

**Author:** Cynthia Leitich Smith
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 231
**Genre:** Young Adult
**ISBN-13:** `9781536202007`
**ISBN-10:** `1536202002`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/hearts-unbroken
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school — and first love. When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper’s staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director’s inclusive approach to casting The Wizard of Oz has been provoking backlash in their mostly white, middle-class Kansas town. From the newly 

## Where this book is assigned

### American Indian Youth Literature Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)

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