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What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1)
by
Sonya Sones
My name is Sophie.This book is about me.It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love.And also of my second.And, okay, my third love, too.It's not that I?m boy crazy.It's just that even though I?m almost fifteen it's like my mind and my body and my heart just don?t seem to be able to agree on anything."Fast, funny, touching." - Booklist, starred r...more
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I found Sonya Sones in our library on one bored snowy day and I won't lie.. the titles of the books caught my eye. And now I'm lost. I love her writing and her style and her voice and at the same time envy all of that too. I just re-read this book because the sequel came out and I wasn't surprised that I loved it even more the second time around. It's a quick read, no longer than an hour if you're not interrupted. The main character, Sophie is a 14 year old, high sch...more
I found Sonya Sones in our library on one bored snowy day and I won't lie.. the titles of the books caught my eye. And now I'm lost. I love her writing and her style and her voice and at the same time envy all of that too. I just re-read this book because the sequel came out and I wasn't surprised that I loved it even more the second time around. It's a quick read, no longer than an hour if you're not interrupted. The main character, Sophie is a 14 year old, high sch...more
This book is such a good book! It is about this girl named Sophie whose Mom and Dad are totally missing out on her life. She talks about her first love, and second, and third. Sophie is kind of going through an emotional metamorphosis in her life, and she has quite a ride during it. I learned in this book that you dont have to think that someone is who they are by the way that they look, or how they talk or walk or anything like this, and when you really think about it you have more than one fla...more
I loved this book. For me, it was one of those books that somewhere along the line turns into music in your head and you don't even realize that you're reading anymore.
It's about a girl (a high school freshman) figuring out who she is and what's really important to her. Thinking about how she sees others, and how they see her. Learning about being and staying true to herself, which is probably one of the most important things you can do in high school.
I picked it up today an...more
It's about a girl (a high school freshman) figuring out who she is and what's really important to her. Thinking about how she sees others, and how they see her. Learning about being and staying true to herself, which is probably one of the most important things you can do in high school.
I picked it up today an...more
First off, I didn't get to finish this book. But I severley doubt that I would have changed the rating even if somewhere in the last fifty pages the story got any better (or even mildly interesting).
And dont even get me started on the creepy sluttiness of the main character, because I may not stop talking.
Honsetly, I'm kind of insulted that this is what people think a "typical teenager" is like. We are not all stupid and vapid and obsessed by boys. Well... mostl...more
And dont even get me started on the creepy sluttiness of the main character, because I may not stop talking.
Honsetly, I'm kind of insulted that this is what people think a "typical teenager" is like. We are not all stupid and vapid and obsessed by boys. Well... mostl...more
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How do I feel about this story? Hmmmm… let me find the right word… I got it!! BBBBLLLLEEEEHHH!!! Okay, was it meant to be annoying? Mind you I did the audio, so maybe the narrator k!lled it for me, but luckily I give most audios about 2 CDs before I decide to continue or toss it. Since this story WAS only 2 CDs I almost changed my approach and tossed it within the first 15 minutes.
The main character Sophie was probably too young for my taste, both age wise and m...more
How do I feel about this story? Hmmmm… let me find the right word… I got it!! BBBBLLLLEEEEHHH!!! Okay, was it meant to be annoying? Mind you I did the audio, so maybe the narrator k!lled it for me, but luckily I give most audios about 2 CDs before I decide to continue or toss it. Since this story WAS only 2 CDs I almost changed my approach and tossed it within the first 15 minutes.
The main character Sophie was probably too young for my taste, both age wise and m...more
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this book is the funniest book i have ever read...itz about this girl named sophie but poeple give her a whole mess of nicknames for her that sHe caNt kEep traCk...she tells about her krazy life where she lifes with her family...she tells about crazy things that only true best friends can do together...once when it was raniing her friends out on a rainroat and took off eberything else...wierd...she tells about her realastionships with her boyfiends that she has had bef0re...she ...more
this book is the funniest book i have ever read...itz about this girl named sophie but poeple give her a whole mess of nicknames for her that sHe caNt kEep traCk...she tells about her krazy life where she lifes with her family...she tells about crazy things that only true best friends can do together...once when it was raniing her friends out on a rainroat and took off eberything else...wierd...she tells about her realastionships with her boyfiends that she has had bef0re...she ...more
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I love, love, love this book. I read it for the fifth or sixth or seventh time over the weekend, and I fell in love with it all over again. It captures the feelings of first love or rather the process of discovering love perfectly. It also perfectly captures those tense moments of a mother-daughter relationship.
And let the record show that this book has never let me down: I have recommended it to dozens of girls who are non-readers and all of them have read it and loved it. It's jus...more
And let the record show that this book has never let me down: I have recommended it to dozens of girls who are non-readers and all of them have read it and loved it. It's jus...more
I loved this book. The fact that it was written entirely in poetic form just adds to it's brilliance.
"What my mother doesn't know", by Sonya Sones, is a cute little story about a girl named Sophie who finds her first love while she grows up. What I particularly love about this novel is that it is in short story/verse form and it's told in her perspective. The book is created to target young adults, and teenagers. The opening setting is the Sophie introducing herself and telling the readers about who she is and about her many nicknames. Sophie is 15 years old, and the boy finally asks ...more
This book was read for Banned Book Week 2011. To see the list of the top ten challenged books of 2010 go to the ALA's website. Banned book week lasts from September 24 to October 1. Support intellectual freedom and read one on the list.
Judged by The Cover: Third Times the Charm
Neither of the first two covers appealed to me. The third one is really the only eye catching one and one that when I see I only think of What My Mother Doesn't Know. Going from left to right the f...more
Judged by The Cover: Third Times the Charm
Neither of the first two covers appealed to me. The third one is really the only eye catching one and one that when I see I only think of What My Mother Doesn't Know. Going from left to right the f...more
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What my Mother doesn't know by Sonya Sones
Reviewed by Moirae the fates book reviews.
My name is Sophie.
This book is about me.
It tells
the heart-stoppingly riveting story
of my first love.
And also of my second.
And, okay, my third love too.
It's not that I'm boy crazy.
It's just that even though
I'm almost fifteen
it's like
my mind
and my body
and my heart
just don't seem to be able to agree
on an...more
Katie Meaney
English IRP
November 28, 2011
What my mother doesn’t know
By: Sonya Sones
What my mother doesn’t know is about a teenage girl whose name is Sophie people call her sof sofa or sapphire which she thinks is the most amazing thing in the world. She revolves her life around boy’s girl drama break ups and fights with her parents. She starts off the book meeting this boy named Dylan “its supposedly love at first sight” as she puts it they met in a car when she sat...more
English IRP
November 28, 2011
What my mother doesn’t know
By: Sonya Sones
What my mother doesn’t know is about a teenage girl whose name is Sophie people call her sof sofa or sapphire which she thinks is the most amazing thing in the world. She revolves her life around boy’s girl drama break ups and fights with her parents. She starts off the book meeting this boy named Dylan “its supposedly love at first sight” as she puts it they met in a car when she sat...more
Okay, I liked the last book I read by Sonya Sones, (One of those hideous books where the mother dies) and though there was something special in it beneath the sort-of-cheesienss, so I thought I would feel the same way about this one, but it kinda just fell flat.
Sophie is dating this really cute guy who she's really attracted to but they don't really have anything in common and he's kind of douchey and sort of anti-semetic. She sort of starts to find herself feeling attracted to the ...more
Sophie is dating this really cute guy who she's really attracted to but they don't really have anything in common and he's kind of douchey and sort of anti-semetic. She sort of starts to find herself feeling attracted to the ...more
I would recommend the book "What My Mother Doesn't Know" by Sonya Sones to a friend because it was a very interesting, sad, and inspiring book. This book is also very much about life experiences on Sophie. My first thought about this book was the cover, because I could foreshadow the main character by the look of her face. Her facial expression showed a well suited girl, and when I read the book it changed my perspective. I would recommend this book because of the quotes throughout eac...more
“What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones is a truly realistic book that I would recommend to any teenager. The book, which is written in the form of a diary, follows a ninth grade girl named Sophie as she learns to look beyond stereotypes and to “not judge a book by its cover”. But what I loved most about the book was how all of the conflicts she faces with her parents and her school are so realistic, any teenager can relate to them. For example, most teenage girls have had some of the same ...more
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What my mother doesn’t know was a quick, charming read. Written in poetry and set up as a teenage girl’s journal this book would hook even the most reluctant reader.
Sophie is on a mission to find Mr. Right. When we begin the book she has just started dating Dylan who she is head over heels in love with (what 15 year old girl is not always head over heels in love ). Through her poems we see Sophie’s relationship with Dylan peak and fizzle out as Sophie realizes there is ...more
What my mother doesn’t know was a quick, charming read. Written in poetry and set up as a teenage girl’s journal this book would hook even the most reluctant reader.
Sophie is on a mission to find Mr. Right. When we begin the book she has just started dating Dylan who she is head over heels in love with (what 15 year old girl is not always head over heels in love ). Through her poems we see Sophie’s relationship with Dylan peak and fizzle out as Sophie realizes there is ...more
I read this book for National Banned Book week (September 24th - October 1st). I saw the advertisement in Half Price Books when I visited to buy some books for a school project. I was a little reluctant to read this book due to the poetry genre, but I can gladly say I am very happy to have picked up this book.
I really wish I would have had a book like this when I was a teenager. The voice of the character is very wonderful, and her struggles to find someone that is "just right"...more
I really wish I would have had a book like this when I was a teenager. The voice of the character is very wonderful, and her struggles to find someone that is "just right"...more
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What My Mother Doesn’t know… five words that could make or break a relationship between mother and daughter, but this book isn’t all about a mother and daughter’s relationship. This is a story about a girl and her first loves and the struggle as a popular high school girl. Her name is Sophie Stein. Everyone thinks Sophie’s life is easy and care free because she is beautiful and popular, but that’s not true. Her family consists of her mom and dad w...more
What My Mother Doesn’t know… five words that could make or break a relationship between mother and daughter, but this book isn’t all about a mother and daughter’s relationship. This is a story about a girl and her first loves and the struggle as a popular high school girl. Her name is Sophie Stein. Everyone thinks Sophie’s life is easy and care free because she is beautiful and popular, but that’s not true. Her family consists of her mom and dad w...more
Checked this out from the Young Adult section of the library. The title is what caught my attention. The book is written in poetry form so the 259 pages read more like 100 pages. Quick and easy read about teenager Sophie and all of her thoughts and adventures being a boy crazy girl with 2 best friends, a depressed mom, and a boyfriend that she doesn't always like. I thought her characters were realistic and with the poetry form of story telling, you don't get bogged down in a whole lot of de...more
Morgane G
6.8.11
What My Mother Doesn’t Know Review
Sonya Sones
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones, is for anyone who enjoys reading about teenage love and drama. Sophie is your average 14-year-old. Living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she falls in love with a boy named Dylan. At first, she feels that he is perfect for her. It was almost love at first sight, and since then it’s been a smooth trip. Soon enough, however, Sophie realizes that this may be just another teenag...more
6.8.11
What My Mother Doesn’t Know Review
Sonya Sones
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones, is for anyone who enjoys reading about teenage love and drama. Sophie is your average 14-year-old. Living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she falls in love with a boy named Dylan. At first, she feels that he is perfect for her. It was almost love at first sight, and since then it’s been a smooth trip. Soon enough, however, Sophie realizes that this may be just another teenag...more
Clever, intense, and told in a series of poems, many of which could stand alone, but which tell the story of infatuation, disillusionment and finding a real relationship, all from the POV of a sensitive, funny and warm artistic girl. Somehow these poems reminded me a little bit of Richard Brautigan - those were the days. Especially this one:
"It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
and not have to tell someone you love them
when you don't love them
anymore"...more
"It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
and not have to tell someone you love them
when you don't love them
anymore"...more
What My Mother Doesn't Know is a verse novel, narrated by 14-year-old Sophie. She tells us her story of that particular time in her life; she meets boys and has boyfriends, she has a tumultuous relationship with her mother and an almost nonexistent one with her father, and has two very close best friends.
The poetry is lovely, though at times I didn't see how the free verse helped move the story forward. It worked much of the time, with the line breaks being just perfect, but there were...more
The poetry is lovely, though at times I didn't see how the free verse helped move the story forward. It worked much of the time, with the line breaks being just perfect, but there were...more
This intriguing love story was told through a series of poems written by the narrator Sophie. She is telling of her struggles and triumphs of her young love life. She thinks she loves her boyfriend Dylan until he asks her not to mention anything of her Jewish religion to his mother; she was deeply offended by this. But she breaks off onto a better road, she later meets a new and unexpected love but doesn’t know if she should tell her friends because he wouldn’t be considered the most ‘popular’ ...more
This book is about a girl named Sophie and she's a freshmen in high school. She has a boyfriend named Dylan and they are in a sweet relationship in the beginning. However, Sophie soon finds out that Dylan isn't the right guy for her. There are many differences between two of them. When Sophie breaks up with Dylan, she meets this stranger on the internet. First, they start as a friend and Sophie finds out that they have a lot of things in common. One day, Sophie is attending this mask-party ...more
A 15 year old girl named Sophie goes through experiencing her first love and how she has to go through problems by herself. She had a relationship going on with Dylan but it didn't work out properly or as well as she thought because Dylan wanted her not to tell her mom that she,herself, was a Jewish person. This really changed her life around then she goes ahead and meets another guy named Chaz. She met Chaz over the internet and their love kinda goes through normally.This causes a big problem i...more
What My Mother Doesn’t Know
BY: Sonya Sones
They thought their love would last… but could it be could Sophie really be falling in love with Murphy?!?!
Sophie is a 14-year-old girl who loves the idea of love. Sophie has two very best friends (Rachel and Grace) these girls help each other get through all of each other’s tough times. They especially helped her through the time when she and Dylan broke up! Sophie and Dylan were a perfect match from the night they had met, althoug...more
When i picked up What my Mother Doesnt Know from the shelf i didnt suspect anything that would be particularly special. It was one of the spur of the moment decisions that got prompted by a lack of books. I have to say i was very pleasently suprised. I found that Sonya Sones' writing was one i could relate to on a level i dont see in many other books. Her voice was so honest and the format of the book was no nonesense so what you got to see was what was happening. I appreciated the real life ...more
I read this book in sixth grade. I liked it then, and I liked it even more after reading it again. I think I actually understand and appreciate the book better now that I've read it twice. Something I thought was funny was that she actually ends up getting to know Murphy and falling in love with him. Before, she made fun of him. I think it just goes to show that you really can't judge a person by what you assume is true about them, or what other people say. I think it says that you don't have to...more
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“Culture Clash
Dylan says
when I meet his mother today
I shouldn't mention
that I'm Jewish.
I say
okay, but can I
tell her about
the HIV postive thing?
He gives me a look.
I give him one back”
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Dylan says
when I meet his mother today
I shouldn't mention
that I'm Jewish.
I say
okay, but can I
tell her about
the HIV postive thing?
He gives me a look.
I give him one back”
“We've turned off all the lights
in the living room
to make hand shadows.
We've got this
big flashlight
aimed at the wall.
I make the silhouette of my hand
into a duck.
Robin makes his into a rabbit.
Now my duck kisses his rabbit
And-POOF!- it turns into
a turkey.
And for some reason
this strikes us
as hysterically funny.
But you probably had to be there.”
—
9 people liked it
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in the living room
to make hand shadows.
We've got this
big flashlight
aimed at the wall.
I make the silhouette of my hand
into a duck.
Robin makes his into a rabbit.
Now my duck kisses his rabbit
And-POOF!- it turns into
a turkey.
And for some reason
this strikes us
as hysterically funny.
But you probably had to be there.”
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