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Beth Kephart Named First Author in Residence for Readergirlz

Please join me from September through December 2009 as I discuss and celebrate everything from the choreography of stories to the power of research in monthly vlogs and contests as readergirlz's first author in residence . Readergirlz is widely recognized as one of the nation's premier sites for young readers, their parents, their teachers, and...

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The Heart Is Not a Size
by Beth Kephart

Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. . . . Or are they? When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters' village in the heat-flattened border city of Juarez, Mexico, secrets seem to...

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WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH, 2010

Metamorphosis at the Dance Studio

I'm going to tell you something: I did not look pretty today. My hair is two weeks past the cut I'd promised it (I'm getting to it, I tell it). My clothes are the ones that aren't in the laundry room (sorry, but that means they are not my favorites). My mascara is tending toward globby. I did not...