Beth Kephart

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Into the Tangle of Friendship

  • Seeing Past Z

    Impassioned and eloquent―reasons and inspirations for nurturing your child's creativity.

    Kids today seem to be under more competitive pressure than ever, while studies show that reading, writing, and the arts in schools are suffering. Is the...

  • Undercover

    Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila--a girl known for her beauty, her popularity, and a ...

  • House of Dance

    Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfa...

  • Nothing But Ghosts

    Ever since her mother passed away, Katie's been alone in her too-big house with her genius dad, who restores old paintings for a living. Katie takes a summer job at a garden estate, where, with the help of two brothers and a glamorous librarian, she ...

  • The Heart Is Not a Size

    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 ...

  • Dangerous Neighbors

    It is 1876, the year of the Centennial in Philadelphia and Katherine has recently lost her twin sister Anna in a tragic skating accident. The loss haunts and threatens to suffocate her, and one wickedly hot September day, Katherine sets out for the e...

  • You Are My Only

    Emmy Rane is married at nineteen, a mother by twenty. Trapped in a life with a husband she no longer loves, Baby is her only joy. Then one sunny day in September, Emmy takes a few fateful steps away from her baby and returns to find her missing. All ...

  • Small Damages

    Juno meets Under the Tuscan Sun It's senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's pregnant. Her determination to keep her baby is something her boyfriend and mother do not un...



  • Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent

    Flavored by the oddities of historic personalities and facts, Dr. Radway’s Sarsaparilla Resolvent is set in Bush Hill, Philadelphia, 1871 -- home to the Baldwin Locomotive Works and a massive, gothic prison. Acclaimed writer Beth Kephart captu...

  • Nest. Flight. Sky.

  • Going Over

    It is February 1983, and Berlin is a divided city with a miles-long barricade separating east from west. But the city isn't the only thing that is divided. Ada lives among the rebels, punkers, and immigrants of Kreuzberg in West Berlin. Stefan lives ...

  • One Thing Stolen

    Something is not right with Nadia Cara. While spending a year in Florence, Italy, she's become a thief. She has secrets. And when she tries to speak, the words seem far away. Nadia finds herself trapped by her own obsessions and following the trail o...

  • This Is the Story of You

    On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and strandi...

  • Wild Blues

    The threat of two escaped convicts and a missing friend lead Lizzie on a harrowing journey through the wilds of the Adirondacks in this stunning novel from National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie’s favorite place in t...

  • Trini's Big Leap

    Trini is the highest flyer, the strongest gripper, the most spectacular cartwheeler at her after-school club. She easily masters any gymnastic move her teachers show her, and always says, “I can do that.” But when she tries to construct buildings...

  • The Great Upending

    When a troubled children’s book author moves to their farm, two kids with troubles of their own hatch a scheme to swipe the ending of the final book in a bestselling series to get a reward from the book’s publisher in this gorgeously written nove...

  • Cloud Hopper

    When a girl in a homemade hot air balloon falls out of the sky in rural Gilbertine, there are questions: Who is this girl, where exactly did she come from, why won’t she talk, and what has she risked to live in a country that does not seem to want ...

  • A Room of Your Own

    From award-winning creators -- author Beth Kephart and artist Julia Breckenreid -- A Room of Your Own is a picture book about the places we go to create, inspired by Virginia Woolf and her noted essay.   Sometimes Virginia Woolf wrote her storie...



  • Good Books for Bad Children

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Beth Kephart has published 20 books.

Beth Kephart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Good Books for Bad Children, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Beth Kephart, Into the Tangle of Friendship, was published in September 2000.

No. Beth Kephart does not write books in series.
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