Lady Reader's Bookstuff: Giveaway - UNDERCOVER by Beth Kephart

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Giveaway - UNDERCOVER by Beth Kephart

5:27 PM | Posted by lady reader |

Today Jodie and I have a signed copy of UNDERCOVER to giveaway. This novel is written and donated by the lovely Beth Kephart.

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 cutting ability to remind Elisa that she has none of these. At home, Elisa's father, the one person she feels understands her, has left on an extended business trip. As the days grow shorter, Elisa worries that the increasingly urgent letters she sends her father won't bring him home. Like the undercover agent she feels she has become, Elisa retreats to a pond in the woods, where her talent for ice-skating gives her the confidence to come out from under cover and take center stage. But when Lila becomes jealous of Theo's friendship with Elisa, her revenge nearly destroys Elisa's ice-skating dreams and her plan to reunite her family.

National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart's first young adult novel is a stunning debut.

"For my first novel for young adults, UNDERCOVER, I returned to the often-awkward high school student I once was for inspiration. Words were my strength. Ice skating was my passion. And my strongest friendships with most boys stemmed from my ability to help those boys know what to say or do for the girls they actually loved. UNDERCOVER is about all of these things, but it also features a mean, too-pretty girl who sets out to destroy my heroine's wish to finally be beautiful and seen in her own right.

I offer a copy of UNDERCOVER in support of this very important drive against bullying."

Beth Kephart, an award-winning writer, is the author of fourteen books, most recently, SMALL DAMAGES, which takes place in southern Spain. A teacher of creative writing at Penn, and a frequent reviewer for the Chicago Tribune and other publications, Beth blogs daily about literature and life at http://beth-kephart.blogspot.com/.