Two Rules, One True Heart

About This Book

Ethan Park builds marble-sorting robots and sketches city skylines, and he lives in a house where every rule arrives in a matching pair. Dad believes structure keeps a family safe: aligned forks, a locked calendar, deadlines that matter. Mom believes curfews are suggestions and the best work happens when you decide to do it. Ethan has learned to live in the narrow space between them — until the robotics competition he has spent weeks building toward lands on the exact same Saturday as Mom's art show, where his skyline is meant to hang beside her paintings. Two promises, one afternoon, and no robot clever enough to untangle it.