# This Boy I Hardly Know

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- Authors: [Lisa Heathfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-heathfield)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Genres: Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories

## Description

‘What they want is love . . . they’ll cross the country and break their hearts to hang on to it’ Melvin Burgess 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, and 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 her children’s home, and together they decide to run . . .‘Raw, real, and full of heart’ Ciara Smyth 'Daisy and Cooper have my heart entirely' Louisa Reid'Full of urgent love, complex betrayals and ferocious secrets' Luke Palmer

## Editions

### This Boy I Hardly Know

- Publisher: Andersen Press
- ISBN: 978-18-3913-783-9
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Language: en_US