false 237320 9 One day in her apartment in Reno, Bernadette heard a pitiful sound in the hallway. She opened the door a crack and saw a young woman standing there in her raincoat, her bare legs spattered with dried mud, holding a crying baby wrapped in a blanket. The baby was Heidi, and they had come from the almost-empty apartment next door for help. Heidi's Mama can't tend her week-old child because she has, as Heidi later says, "a bum brain," so Bernadette steps in and cares for them both tenderly. Mama says her name is "So Be It," but with her twenty-three-word vocabulary, this is all the information she can give Bernadette.<p> Twelve years later this strange but loving household is still together. Heidi does the shopping because Bernadette has "angora phobia," and pays for it with money she wins at the laundromat; Bernadette teaches her at the kitchen table while Mama is happily occupied with her coloring books, and the rent and utilities are always mysteriously paid. But Heidi wonders who she is, where she and Mama came from, why they were alone, and most of all, she wants to know the meaning of Mama's word "soof." When she finds some old photos in a cupboard, she knows where to go to find out, and as she sets out on a long cross-country bus journey, the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into surprising places in this intriguing and heartwarming mystery. (Ages 10 to 14) <I>--Patty Campbell</I> 894503 2004 So B. It total:2213|5:911|4:779|3:415|2:83|1:25| 2213 9107 2915 621 5 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 15:36:06 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 19:44:56 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 17:33:41 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 17:36:08 -0800 2008 once more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Dec 04 06:39:26 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 06:42:47 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Thu Mar 05 13:11:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 13:11:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Dec 09 07:23:13 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 07:26:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 12 11:42:47 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 11:45:16 -0700 2009
So B. It
Sarah Weeks
Pre-Reading/Anticipatory Thoughts: The cover looks appealing. I’m not really sure what this is supposed to be about, be it looks like it would be about some sort of hip-style alternate spelling, which suggests an urban background. This does no...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 10:09:34 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 10:36:48 -0800 2009
For Heidi, this question is more literal than figurative. Her mentally disabled mother has a vocabulary of 23 words, s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 09:39:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:40:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:24:18 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:27:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 16:20:04 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 16:23:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 21:33:39 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 10:35:06 -0800 2009 level: x
my level:  x
date read: 1/18/09-1/20/09
pages: 243
main characters: Heidi, mom, and her neighbor
setting: her home
theme: the theme of the story was that you have to belive in your self.  

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