The Heart Is Not a Size
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On Sale:
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3/30/2010
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Formats:
Hardcover | eBook
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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 percolate and threaten both a friendship and a life. Certainties unravel. Reality changes. And Georgia is left to figure out who she is outside the world she's always known.
Beth Kephart paints a world filled with emotion, longing, and the hot Mexican sun.
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Critical Praise for
The Heart Is Not a Size
Beth Kephart is a must read YA author.
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Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (Starred Review)
“[Kephart] has penned a faster paced novel that explores our inner selves...The writing is vivid. Readers will visualize Anapra’s desolation and hope. They will feel the dust storms. They will relate to the teens...Beth Kephart is a must read YA author.”
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Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
Praise for UNDERCOVER
“This is a beautifully written, engrossing tale.”
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School Library Journal (starred review)
“Kephart’s fluid writing style and ability to illuminate the meaningful and beautiful in the everyday combine to create a tale that is both winningly different and comfortably familiar.”
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“An intelligent, multi-layered love story.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Beautifully told.”
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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