The Heart Is Not a Size

By Beth Kephart
(HarperTeen, Hardcover, 9780061470486, 256pp.)

Publication Date: March 10, 2010

Categories: Social Issues - New Experience, Social Issues - Friendship, People & Places - United States - Hispanic/Latino

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.

"[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."
-Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

"An intelligent, multi-layered love story."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Praise for UNDERCOVER"This is a beautifully written, engrossing tale."
-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."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Praise for HOUSE OF DANCE "Beautifully told."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)