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What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
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What My Mother Doesn't Know

by Sonya Sones

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This book is great. Filled with love and boys. Its breath taking. More than a book. A life told by a real teenager. Wonderful read.
  ferkat0390 | Oct 25, 2009 |
I didn't really have so much of an interest in this book as much as i did in the beginning. I felt as if the point of view of the main character was from a 7th grader, not so much a fourteen-year-old. Nor did i find myself fond of the format of the text either, since it was set up in a poetic form i grew tired of it farly quickly. I also got pretty confused with all the male characters that wove their way through the pages and how poorly they were described compared to Sophie's "first love". ( )
  DF1AKaitlanM | Oct 8, 2009 |
This is a modern, fun, book from a young girl's point of view. Written almost like journal entries or poems, she gets right to the point. Students will be able to relate to the "boy problems", and other problems she goes through. I think it's good to have these realistic-type books, as a touchstone to other things.
  mcivalleri | Aug 5, 2009 |
This is actually a collection of poems written from the point of view of Sophie, a boy-crazy teen who tells her various tales of 'love' through a series of poems. The poems are free verse and mostly chronological, and although each seems rather insignificant, you soon realize that you have really gotten inside her head. The poems each tell about something that may seem insignificant to an adult reader, but which is clearly THE most important thing in the life of a teen (it hasn't been too long since I was a teen, so I can relate!) Sophie writes about things like lusting for the hot, popular guy, having secret feelings for the dorky boy, fighting with her best friends, finding out that her parents have dirty books...things that happened to many of us in our teen years and had a big impact at the time.
  LDGardner | Jun 4, 2009 |
Told in a series of short poems, this book conveys a wonderful message to young teens about the importance of looking beyond the surface image of the people you know and finding out who that person really is. ( )
  readingrat | May 24, 2009 |
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Most people just call me Sophie

(which is the name

on my birth certificate),

or Sof,

or sometimes Sofa.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0689855532, Paperback)

Meet Sophie. She sees herself as the too-tall "Mount Everest of teenage girls," who, along with her friends, often suffers from "lackonookie disease." She's dating smoky, sexy Dylan, covertly chatting online with "cybersoul"-mate Chaz, and secretly nursing a crush on sweet, geeky Murphy. Her two best friends are closer to her than sisters, and she "hates hating" her soap opera-addicted mom, wishing "she would show half as much interest in my life as she does in Luke and Laura's." In other words, Sophie is a typical teenage girl. What is not so typical is how author Sonia Sones records all of Sophie's thoughts in a freewheeling verse that is such a naked outpouring of inner longing, most readers will blush in embarrassed recognition of their own remembered or current teenage desires. Sones gently leads both the reader and Sophie towards an understanding of the difference between love and lust as Sophie slowly comes to realize that Dylan's outsides are no match for Murphy's insides. Autobiographical of Sones, perhaps? The author claims it isn't so, and she's probably right. With her frank manner, lusty thoughts, and hidden insecurities, Sophie reflects many teenage girls, past and present. No woman will be able to read this heartfelt verse novel and not find a bit of herself in Sophie's secret, sexy thoughts. Sones's decadent, almost shamefully delicious collection of angst poems is a loving and amazingly accurate tribute to adolescent girlhood. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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