The heart is not a size

By Beth Kephart

Subjects: Conduct of life, Voluntarism, Poverty, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Children's fiction, Friendship, Poverty, fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Best friends, Conduct of life, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Self-perception, Voluntarism, fiction, Mexico, fiction

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.Beth Kephart paints a world filled with emotion, longing, and the hot Mexican sun.