The heart is not a size

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.

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

Places: Ciudad Juárez (Mexico),  Mexico