Beating Heart: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)

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Description


This house

is mine

and

I am

its beating heart.

She is a ghost: a figure glimpsed from the corner of your eye, a momentary chill, and a memory of secret kisses and hidden passion. He is 17 years old: Evan Calhoun, warm and alive, and ever since moving to this big abandoned house, he has dreamt of her. Ghost and boy fascinate each other–until her memories and his desire collide in a moment that changes them both.

Combining verse fragments with chiseled prose, A. M. Jenkins captures the compelling voice of a long–dead ghost and the perspective of a modern teen, twining mystery and romance in this evocative, sensual, and unrelentingly engrossing novel.

Ages 14+

About the Author


A. M. Jenkins is the award-winning author of Damage, Beating heart: A Ghost Story, and the Printz Honor Book Repossessed, and lives in Benbrook, Texas, with three sons, two cats, and two dogs. Jenkins received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for night road.

Praise for Beating Heart: A Ghost Story…


“Jenkins’ story crosses decades and genres while parallel plots reveal themselves: first love, secret intimacy, fear and regret. Carefully crafted.”
-KLIATT

“Subtly eerie—a razor-sharp plot enfolded in a bed of feathery down.”
-School Library Journal

“Intriguing and certainly haunting. A winner.”
-Kirkus Reviews

Product Details ISBN-10: 0060546077
ISBN-13: 9780060546076
Published: HarperTeen, 01/01/2006
Pages: 256
Language: English
Recommended Reading Level Minimum Age: 14
Maximum Age: 17
Minimum Grade Level: 9th Grade
Maximum Grade Level: 12th Grade