The Heart Is Not a Size

Zusatztext Praise for HOUSE OF DANCE "Beautifully told." Informationen zum Autor Beth Kephart was nominated for a National Book Award for her memoir A Slant of Sun . Her first novel for teens, Undercover , received four starred reviews and was named a Best Book by Kirkus Reviews , School Library Journal , and Amazon.com. In 2005 Beth was awarded the Speakeasy Poetry Prize. She has also written Into the Tangle of Friendship: A Memoir of the Things That Matter ; Still Love in Strange Places: A Memoir ; Ghosts in the Garden: Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self ; Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River ; Zenobia: The Curious Book of Business ; and House of Dance . She lives in Pennsylvania with her family. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Beth Kephart
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2010
• EAN: 9780061470486
• ISBN: 978-0-06-147048-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 189 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Assimilation *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Contemporary *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Depression *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Pregnancy *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / New Experience *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Mental Illness *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Diversity & Multicultural *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Poverty & Homelessness