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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
I've been having sort of a hard time
trying to figure out the difference
between love and lust.
It's like
my mind
and my body
and my heart
just don't seem to...more
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
I've been having sort of a hard time
trying to figure out the difference
between love and lust.
It's like
my mind
and my body
and my heart
just don't seem to...more
ebook, 272 pages
Published
October 19th 2010
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
(first published February 1st 2001)
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Feb 13, 2010
Kim
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
the-kids-are-all-right,
favorite-authors
*another rewrite*
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 school freshman...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 school freshman...more
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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
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Jan 05, 2008
Valerie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommended to Valerie by:
Kimmy
Shelves:
young-adult
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 and didn't put it down...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 and didn't put it down...more
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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... mostly.
I'm sorry if this seems a littl...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... mostly.
I'm sorry if this seems a littl...more
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[Audio:]
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 maturity wise. She's a fif...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 maturity wise. She's a fif...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 saids th...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 saids th...more
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Apr 15, 2008
Jacki
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
teenage gals
Recommended to Jacki by:
my friend Kelly
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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 just so good.
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 just so good.
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I loved this book. The fact that it was written entirely in poetic form just adds to it's brilliance.
I thought this book was really good. I think that it was way better than the second one because I think I could relate to it a little more because I'm a girl and it was a girl telling the story. Sophie in the story goes through having 3 loves. In the begining of the book she is in this relationship but it ends right away because the boy started liking another girl, she was heart broken. But a few monthes later she fell in love with this boy Dylan, and they dated for a while but towards the end o...more
"What My Mother Doesn't Know" was the second book I've read written in verse. Originally, I wasn't entirely fond of the technique, but Sophie's story could not have been told more perfectly.
I really connected with Sophie while reading the novel, because she reminded me so much of myself at her age. At 15, Sophie convinces herself that she's in love with each boy that she dates. She seems so ready to grow up, even though she's barely in the midst of her teenage years, which is such a relatable st...more
I really connected with Sophie while reading the novel, because she reminded me so much of myself at her age. At 15, Sophie convinces herself that she's in love with each boy that she dates. She seems so ready to grow up, even though she's barely in the midst of her teenage years, which is such a relatable st...more
Poem #1: Boy Crazy Sophie
Sophie daydreams about guys all day.
During class, almost every minute of the day.
Dylan, the boy of her dreams,
Finally asks her out.
At first, she it seemed to be
True love, not infatuation.
But then, she gets an odd feeling,
About dating Dylan.
Something doesn't seem right,
The feelings are fading away.
Then, she breaks up with him
To go out with her true love, Murphy.
They have so much in common,
It seems like they were made
For each other.
Poem #2: Teenagers!
Oh, Sophie and her hor...more
Sophie daydreams about guys all day.
During class, almost every minute of the day.
Dylan, the boy of her dreams,
Finally asks her out.
At first, she it seemed to be
True love, not infatuation.
But then, she gets an odd feeling,
About dating Dylan.
Something doesn't seem right,
The feelings are fading away.
Then, she breaks up with him
To go out with her true love, Murphy.
They have so much in common,
It seems like they were made
For each other.
Poem #2: Teenagers!
Oh, Sophie and her hor...more
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What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones, is a great book about a fifteen year old teenager, Sophie. Just like most almost all girl meets guy stories, Sophia falls in love with Dylan. But she finds out there is trouble between them, and they break up. Then Sophie ends up dating Murph, who is the complete opposite of Dylan. Murph is a complete dork, everyone in school thinks he is one, and they use his name as a bad thing. Like if someone falls, they would say, "Don't be such a Murph." But Soph...more
A very quick read. It wasn't anything spectacular writing style, content wise, etc., but I really enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of my adolescence and my relationship with my mother. I thought the book did a really good job at examining Sophia's and her mother's relationship, without really analyzing it (I don't know how to explain this...) I kept thinking to myself, that totally happened with me and my mom. A pleasant read that made me smile and think about all the times I went behind my moth...more
Jan 31, 2013
Stephanie Reiner
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
young-adult
I picked up a copy of What My Mother Doesn’t Know and once again I was disappointed. I wouldn’t have even bothered finishing if it weren’t for the fact that it was only a 2 hour audio book.
Contrary to the blurb on the back of the book, Sophie IS boy crazy! She goes through three different guys in this short book, and whenever she’s not with one she’s dreaming about one. Heck, even when she has a boyfriend she’s dreaming of a different guy! I disliked Sophie from the very beginning, I found her...more
Contrary to the blurb on the back of the book, Sophie IS boy crazy! She goes through three different guys in this short book, and whenever she’s not with one she’s dreaming about one. Heck, even when she has a boyfriend she’s dreaming of a different guy! I disliked Sophie from the very beginning, I found her...more
I read the book “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones. I loved reading this book because I could really relate to it. It’s a fictional story all about the relationship between a mother and a daughter. The daughter, Sophie, feels like she has to keep secrets from her mother. Throughout the book, she frequently gets caught up in her lies, but her mother loves her, regardless.
This book was written in first person point of view, so it was easy to tell exactly what she was thinking at all time...more
This book was written in first person point of view, so it was easy to tell exactly what she was thinking at all time...more
Book starts out with the main character, Sophie who goes out with this dude named Lou. But he gets dumped later on in the book. The she meets this other dude, a dude that others think is beautiful in a macho kind of way, but this relationship ended like the one before-- dumped him. So she tries a new approach, internet. Well, lets just say she found a guy, a guy who she never seen or heard before and when the time came, she found her answer-- the dude, perverted and not the way she had imagined...more
Another book I only picked up because it featured on the top ten most frequently challenged books list of 2011. I grabbed the audio version, and since it's only 2 CDs long I knocked this one out today during my commutes.
I found it amusing, and it reminded me of being a teenager. I could see myself enjoying this book quite a bit at a younger age. It didn't move the earth for me or anything, but it wasn't bad. So, let's look at why it was challenged: nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
N...more
I found it amusing, and it reminded me of being a teenager. I could see myself enjoying this book quite a bit at a younger age. It didn't move the earth for me or anything, but it wasn't bad. So, let's look at why it was challenged: nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
N...more
It's not hard to see why What My Mother Doesn't Know falls into slot #8 on the banned books list this year. It talks about divorce (OMG!), kissing (scandalous!), even (GASP!) sex. And what's more, it talks a lot about Sophie keeping these things from her mother. Parents tend to want to keep books like these away from their kids because they don't want them to get the idea that they should be doing things like lying to their parents... or kissing boys for that matter. And don't even get me starte...more
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I liked this book a lot for some reason. It really did make me think about my own teenage life. And it's actually more relateable then I expected it to be. The main character Sophie finds herself in a typical teenage position. She was going out with someone who dumped her for another girl. Then she finds someone new that she had completely adored. She had best friends were are there for her who she grew up with. That part I envied because I don't have best friends that I grew up with and I kinda...more
From School Library Journal:
Gr 6-8-A story written in poetry form. Sophie is happily dating Dylan, "until he's practically glued himself to my side." Then she falls for cyberboy ("if I could marry a font/I'd marry his"). Imagine her surprise when he becomes downright scary. In the satisfying ending, Sophie finds the perfect boyfriend-someone she's known all along. Sones is a bright, perceptive writer who digs deeply into her protagonist's soul. There she reveals the telltale signs of being "boy...more
Gr 6-8-A story written in poetry form. Sophie is happily dating Dylan, "until he's practically glued himself to my side." Then she falls for cyberboy ("if I could marry a font/I'd marry his"). Imagine her surprise when he becomes downright scary. In the satisfying ending, Sophie finds the perfect boyfriend-someone she's known all along. Sones is a bright, perceptive writer who digs deeply into her protagonist's soul. There she reveals the telltale signs of being "boy...more
Jun 10, 2012
Patty Curran
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
11th-grade-advisory
What my mother doesn’t know was a quick and easy read. It is about a girl named Sophie. Sophie is on a mission to find Mr. Right. In the beginning ofthe book we are introduced to her boyfriend dylan. Through her poems we see Sophie’s relationship with Dylan peak and fizzle out as Sophie realizes there is a lot more to love and relationships then she originally thought. Sophie also deals with making decisions for herself even if it is not a popular decision.
Dylan is a seemingly normal boy who tru...more
Dylan is a seemingly normal boy who tru...more
I thought this book was a good poetry book. I did not think it was amazing but I still think it is a good book. The way the author wrote what was going on in Sophie's life in poems made it really easy to understand and made the book flow smoothly. I found it interesting the way the poems thoroughly described how the main character felt throughout the book. The poems greatly depicted the relationships that she had with other characters. In the beginning of the book, Sophie's boyfriend is a guy na...more
Vivian Ramirez Book review #1 It was in a September afternoon when Sophie first falls in love with Dylan. Time passed and they both realize that they weren’t for each other so both moved on and just became friends. She met this other boy online it was going great she was so depurate to meet him but one day when they were chatting online he told her something that a girl would never want to her that a guy tells her . She goes through fight with her parents because they are divorced but it really...more
This novel is in the point of view of Sophie. She narrates her life in high school, what is going on in her relationships, family and friends. As just one of the things Sophie deals with, she starts going out with a boy named Dylan. Their relationship lasts for a while, but then Sophie decides to end it because she somewhat has a relationship with someone named Chaz. Chaz is someone Sophie met in an online chat room, but also later on, she ends it. Then, Sophie goes out with Murphy. He isn’t con...more
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Controversial Books
Taking a spot on ALA’s most challenged books (2000-2009) What My Mother Doesn’t Know follows the life of 14 year old Sophie. Sophie comes from a detached home where her father is constantly working and an emotionally distant mother who stays in the basement to watch soap operas. Sophie first falls in love with Dylan and the relationship is great for a while, but eventually ends. In the midst of Sophie’s battles with her mother she again finds love with an unsusp...more
Controversial Books
Taking a spot on ALA’s most challenged books (2000-2009) What My Mother Doesn’t Know follows the life of 14 year old Sophie. Sophie comes from a detached home where her father is constantly working and an emotionally distant mother who stays in the basement to watch soap operas. Sophie first falls in love with Dylan and the relationship is great for a while, but eventually ends. In the midst of Sophie’s battles with her mother she again finds love with an unsusp...more
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This book is easy to connect with if you are a teenage girl who has had relationship problems in the past or has trouble expressing themselves.
Sophie (main character)is a typical teenage girl looking for "love" in this big ol' world. She looks everywhere to find it nothing is going to limit her.
The book takes you through 3 of her most motivating experiences with love. In poetic form on every page it takes you into a new poem and a new experience into Sophie's world.
Sonya touches on real subject...more
Sophie (main character)is a typical teenage girl looking for "love" in this big ol' world. She looks everywhere to find it nothing is going to limit her.
The book takes you through 3 of her most motivating experiences with love. In poetic form on every page it takes you into a new poem and a new experience into Sophie's world.
Sonya touches on real subject...more
What My Mother Doesn't Know is a novel written in poetry format about a girl named Sophie and her romantic relationships that begin in Middle School and are followed into High School. Sophie has two friends named Rachel and Grace that also swap stories about their boyfriends with Sophie and all three girls give each other advice. Throughout this book we see Sophie learn that being in love is much less about physical attraction and much more about the way someone makes you feel as well as makes y...more
"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 her out th...more
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I was born in Boston and overprotected in the nearby suburb of Newton. I thought I would be an artist when I grew up. I loved sneaking upstairs to a tiny room in our attic, where I could while away the hours drawing pictures of dinosaurs. The summer I turned seventeen, I fell in love with making animated films (not to mention at least a couple of boys). Soon after, I enrolled in Hampshire College...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.”
—
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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.”
