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Heartland Academy seems like the least likely place to make really good friends, particularly when everyone there has an issue of some kind to contend with. Emmy and Justin face an eating disorder and depression respectively, but as they build their friendship they find that they haven't lost their hope in each other or their sense of humour - important, seeing as laughter is the best medicine. Trish Cook and Brendan Halpin are seasoned YA veterans who bring their expertise of humour and emotional nakedness to their characters.

Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a new father, surrounded by friends she is beginning to despise and well-meaning adults who succeed only in annoying her.
Sean made a donation fifteen years ago, and his life since has not gone according to plan. Thirty-five, single, and still grieving the loss of his own mother twenty-seven years ago, he decides to take on the overwhelming task of caring for an unhappy teenager he doesn’t know.

Told entirely through e-mail, instant messaging, journal entries, and other random communications, Donorboy is the comic, compellingly readable novel of how these two people learn to converse, cook, write heavy-metal songs, and nail windows shut on their way to becoming a family. Brendan Halpin has written a universal story of how we laugh, cry, and occasionally punch our way to a new life in the face of tragedy.