This Train Is Being Held

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A captivating, classic story about two people who ‘shouldn’t’ be together . . . readers will be cheering them on until its satisfying conclusion. - Booklist

Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand that - or allow it . . .

Isa is a dancer. She’d love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren’t dead set against it . . . just like she’s dead set against her daughter falling for a Latino. And Isa’s privileged private-school life - with her dad losing his job and her older brother struggling with mental illness - is falling apart. Not that she’d ever tell that to Alex.

Fate - and the New York City subway - have brought Alex and Isa together. Is it enough to keep them together when they need each other most?