“The idea flashes across my mind that even if I go to jail, or to the hospital, maybe tonight, this moment, is worth it.”
~Cassidy Carrigan
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Book Synopsis
The first rule of riding horses is, when you fall off, you get back on. Cassidy Carrigan has literally and figuratively fallen off the horse in her life, and she’s using everything in her power to not get back on.
After her parents separate and her best friend deserts her, Cassidy reluctantly agrees to attend summer camp at a remote ranch in Wyoming. She figures that the change of scenery may help her face her escalating fears. But she didn’t figure on how huge that change would be—the forever wide Wyoming skies, the wild mustangs that capture her heart, and the cowboy that ends up stealing it. She also didn’t realize that being brave could feel so good and cause so much trouble.
Set in the wild, beautiful west, here is a story that tells the unvarnished truth about falling in love when the odds are against you. Alternatingly heart-stopping and heartbreaking, Thief of Happy Endings is a story that will stay with you, like a summer you’ll never forget.
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Book Specs
- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
- Publication date: June 19, 2018
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425290476
- ISBN-13: 978-0425290477
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Kristen Chandler Bio
I was such a storyteller as a small child, my parents sent me outside to play so they could get things done. It didn’t stop me from telling stories, but it changed the kind of stories I told.
For most of my life my family lived in a small college town in the American West, so my parents felt like they owed it to their sheltered children to drive on every backroad between San Diego and Banff. That’s an exaggeration, but I saw a lot of sagebrush as a kid. As a teen, I started to write. I had a journal, where I mused about boys and the meaning of life. I wrote stories, poems, articles and even lyrics. Super dreadful lyrics. By the time I went to college I was sure I was on my way to being a female Fitzgerald.
What I became, was a woman with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing, who taught college writing classes, and chased her questionably-behaved children. The road was fun! I traveled, lived different places, and met cool people. Then I hit a few a few bumps in the road. Bumps that sat me down. And I started thinking about the meaning of life again.
What I learned in the years after that, was how to go after what I want. And I wanted to write novels for young adults. Because kids ask all the important, hard, scary questions and wear their answers like scars of pride. So now I have this bonkers life I share with my blended family of eight children, two dogs, a mutant cat and a husband I’m wildly in love with. I still tell stories about playing outside and boys and the meaning of life. But the incredible thing is, I get to share them with you.
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Awards and Accolades
GIRLS DONT FLY:
- ABA’s Winter 2011-2012 Kids’ Indie Next List
- Whitney Award, Nominee, General Young Adult
- Junior Library Guild Selection
WOLVES, BOYS AND OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT KILL ME:
- 2011 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award Finalist
- Selected as a YALSA Hidden Gem for 2010
- Whitney Award, Nominee, General Young Adult
- The Association of Booksellers ABC 2010 New Voices Pick, Novels for Teens
- Author on Main Street, Utah Humanities Council
- Reader’s Choice Award “Best Novel 2010,” City Weekly
- Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers featured author, June 2010