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Article: Sharon Creech Heartbeat.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Sharon Creech Heartbeat 180 pp. Cotler/HarperCollins 3/04 ISBN 0-06-054022-2 15.99 Library edition ISBN 0-06-054023-0 16.89 (Intermediate, Middle School)
In free verse, Annie describes a transitional year in her life. The impending birth of her first sibling, the decline in her grandfather's health, and the changes in her friend Max bring up all sorts of questions about what it means to be alive: "I wonder if the alien baby / can think now / and if it can think / what does it think? / And what did I think / when I was small / and why did I forget? / And what else will I forget / when I grow older? / And if you forget / is it as if / it never happened?" Annie's ...