Heartbeat, by Sharon Creech (2004)
Heartbeat is the second book by Sharon Creech to tell a story thru poetry.
Creech’s “poems” are easy to read as they are actually beautiful prose
sentences arranged in stanza form.
Heartbeat is the story of a 12-year-old girl grappling with the complexity
of issues in her life: her mother is expecting a baby; her grandfather is
losing his memory; she loves to run and to draw; she is stimulated by both
her English class (in which she learns about footnotes and the thesaurus)
and her drawing class (in which she is given a very interesting and
challenging exercise); and she can’t quite figure out if her feelings toward
her best friend, Max (with whom she likes to run).
Creech’s achievement in this novel is to blend an impressive array of themes
and tell a story in a brisk 180 pages - through the medium of unforgettable
and accessible poetry.
Here is a link to a longer article praising the virtues of Sharon Creech’s Heartbeat: http://www.senorcafe.com/archives/literature/a_christmas_plu.html
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