The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart
Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperTeen; 1 edition (March 30, 2010) BOOK DESCRIPTION: 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. MY REVIEW: This is the first book I've read by Beth Kephart and I was pleasantly surprised. With sparse lines and a deft precision to detail which was quite lovely, the author was able to evoke strong emotions from this reader and that is the sign of a talented writer. The main character, Georgia, the middle child watches as her pop