Heart of Iron
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780062652850
Pages
467 pages
Genre
science fiction
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09 -- one of the last remaining illegal Metals -- has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana's desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn't care what he'll sacrifice to keep them. When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them -- and the coordinates -- and not everyone wants them captured alive. What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives -- and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana's past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
HL740L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Legal guardianship; Gay/Lesbian; orphan; gay
Main Character
female teenager
Keywords
fantasy; space; science; royalty; lost princess; love; robots; fighting
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Poston, Ashley, "Heart of Iron" (2018). Diverse Families. 2161.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/2161