Ivy's Guide To Happiness
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Last published Sat, Jul 1, 2017
When you're Ivy Jones happiness doesn't come easily to you. In fact, happiness is all the way on the other side of the spectrum of feelings she generally experiences. Ivy is not happy, that's all she's really sure of.
Jones, as her acquaintance Jack Evergreene calls her, is a 17-year-old book nerd who is obsessed with overcoming her darkness. Seemingly alone she takes on her personal mission to experience happiness and spread it everywhere she goes.
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