Beth Kephart's Page

I am the author of HOUSE OF DANCE, a novel about the healing of power of ballroom dance, which was recently released by HarperTeen. HOUSE was featured in the pages of Family Circle, Chicago Tribune, and Philadephia Inquirer, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus.

For those who might wish to learn a little bit more, I provide a link to the Inquirer story here:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20447184.html

A brief excerpt follows:

“I was thinking about living and dying, and
secrets, and the shadows being cast by trees,
and I was standing beneath awnings on the
street where Granddad lived, looking up and
watching dancers dance, in the long, wide
window bands. Those thin arms rising, those hips
in a swivel, those hands reaching, that music
coming from, and going to, places far away.

“The dance was alive—more and more, that’s
what I knew. The dance was beauty, something
whole. The dance was hope, and hope was
what I needed most of all the summer my
Granddad died.”

HOUSE OF DANCE by Beth Kephart
Laura Geringer Books: HarperTeen
ISBN: 978-0-06-142928-6
Available from all fine bookstores.