T. Lily Decker has a 12-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol, boyfriends, and take her regular psych quizzes, given by her best friend Sawyer, to make sure she escapes inheriting her mother's schizophrenia- if she can live steer clear of everything crazy from 18 to 30, she could evade the looming threat of the mental illness. Lily does everything she can to avoid becoming her mother, Violet- obsessed with Peter Pan and the works of Escher, who tried to make Lily "fly" to Neverland from the rooftop of their apartment when she was young. When she starts her local newspaper internship following the story of a soon-to-be-mother elephant at the local zoo, she is invited to come to witness the birth of the baby elephant after all the healthy publicity brought to the zoo by her previous articles, but when the elephant calf Swifty is rejected and nearly killed by her mother, then put in custody of the circus to which the young elephant's sire is owned, Lily is forced to forget her twelve-year plan to save Swifty. Full of twists and turns, When Elephants Fly is a rollercoaster of a plotline! An inspiring story of courage, and doing what's right, readers will revel in Fischer's dynamic and realistic characters. A fast and delightful read! Enjoy!
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When Elephants Fly
By Nancy Richardson Fischer
Don’t miss one of the most heartwarming young adult novels of the year. Perfect for fans of
Water for Elephants
,
Wonder
and
All the Bright Places
,
When Elephants Fly
shows that how we choose to live our lives matters, and that sometimes taking a risk can be both the hardest and the most wonderful thing of all.
T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she’s not developing schizophrenia.
Genetics are not on Lily’s side. When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily’s odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there’s a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.
But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can’t abandon the story or the calf. With Swifty in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything, including her sanity and a first love, on a desperate road trip to save the calf’s life, perhaps finding her own version of freedom along the way.
T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she’s not developing schizophrenia.
Genetics are not on Lily’s side. When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily’s odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there’s a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.
But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can’t abandon the story or the calf. With Swifty in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything, including her sanity and a first love, on a desperate road trip to save the calf’s life, perhaps finding her own version of freedom along the way.
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Published on 9/1/2018
Binding: Kindle Edition