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

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Spring 2010 Kids' Next List

“Beth Kephart has written another must-read book for teens in this story of a group of teens who travel to a Mexican border town to work to help the residents there. She isn't afraid to tackle such big issues as parental pressure, anorexia, and death, and she does it all with compassion, honesty, and beautiful writing.”

-- Mandy King, The Boulder Book Store, Boulder, CO

Description

From a National Book Award finalist comes a story of a group of American teenagers that travels to Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.

About the Author

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.

Praise For The Heart Is Not a Size…

"[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)

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