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Heartstopper (2022)/S3E4 · Journey/Isaac on the park blanket: Starfish
Heartstopper · Season 3, Episode 4, "Journey"

Isaac on the park blanket: Starfish

Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan) · Picnic blanket in the park

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What it tells you

The friends sit on a blanket in the park cutting Darcy's hair and Isaac reads Akemi Dawn Bowman. That's his second Bowman, after Summer Bird Blue in season two. He's found an author.

Sources: All the books Isaac reads in Heartstopper, season three, Meeghan reads · Every book that Isaac reads in Heartstopper, Kobo · A Complete Heartstopper Book List, The Geeky Waffle
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Starfish

Akemi Dawn Bowman · 2017 · YA novel

Bowman's 2017 debut follows Kiko Himura, a half-Japanese art student who gets rejected from her dream school and has to work out who she is without it. Isaac picks the book about a kid making art while his friends give someone a haircut on a picnic blanket.

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