What My Mother Doesn't Know

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.

Amazon.com Review
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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what my mother dosent know, 2008-08-04
I bought this book for my thirteen and a half year old granddaughter. I read the reviews on the book, and knowing she was an old thirteen, thought it appropriate. Her mother was upset, as the book is to adult, and maybe used for a sixteen year old.


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what my mother doesnt know, 2008-04-28
4/28/08


What My Mother Doesn't Know
Sonya Sones

All teenagers can tell you the same thing; life isn't nearly as simple as our mothers think. For Sophie, a confused teen who is just struggling to survive the difficulties that growing up brings. She has to make tough decisions like, which is more important, your reputation, or someone that could end up being, the love of your life?
Warning, once you start reading this, exquisite book, you wont be able to put it down! This gripping novel tells the life of Sophie, or should I say "Sapphire" who is faced with a lot of the same problems that all teens know of such as her life never seems to stay right for long which I think is something people of all ages can relate to. Also that the "loves of her life" don't really end up lasting that long. As hard as she tries to not "do a Murphy" she just can't get her life right.
This is the perfect book for teenage girls, and also their mothers! It is a fabulous read for those who enjoy reading, and tend to do it constantly, and the pickiest of all readers in the world. To say this book is good, is a complete understatement, it is truly a fantastic book, and so are all the others by the author, including the sequel-What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know.
So when your eyes are glued to the page, you can't say I didn't warn you.

-Lexxi M.



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Beth's Review, 2008-03-14
What my mother doesn't know
By: Sonya Sones

My opinion
I don't like the book what my mother doesn't know because it skips around from thing to thing. Most of Sonya's books make me want to read more but this one just made me so bored I could barf. (Good thing I didn't!) The entire book talked about was how many guys' she can date in one day. My opinion is way way too many! She dates like seven guys in one week, and at school she flirts with all the guys.


About the book
This book is about a girl who likes this guy from a party his name is Dylan and they go out for along time. Then after a while then she stops liking him after they make out seven million times. Then she starts liking another guy that she goes on a blind date but she still has no clue that she has a lifetime the same as his mom! I know I didn't like it but you might so give it a try. I like her book one of those hideous stories where the mother dies & stop pretending that my big sister didn't go crazy so you might try those too.



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"What My Mother Dosent Know" Book Review, 2008-03-13
What My Mother Doesn't Know is a book based on a girl named Sophie and her boy problems. She is a curious 15 year old character, who doesn't know which boy to like. She doesn't feel very comfortable with a boy named Dylan that she has been currently going out with, while also having an IM relationship with someone she doesn't even know. But the real problem here is that a boy named Robin Murphy has caught her attention. Sophie has a desire to just be his friend because he seems so lonely, but he is too much of a loser to even talk to. While this whole charade is going on, Sophie accidentally end up dancing with a masked man at the prom, and is desperate to find who he is. On page 138 Sophie thinks "I don't have a clue who I'm dancing with, but our bodies are acting like old friends, as though they know something we don't know."

Sophie isn't doing all that well with her family relationship either. Her father doesn't seem to be around their home most of the time. It seems as if he doesn't appreciate them. Her mother doesn't trust her anymore because of a terrible act that Sophie committed. She keeps a little too many secrets from them with who she really wants to be with. In the end she does end up with someone surprising. "He's smiling through and through. And I am, too. Because everything's going to be all right". (pg, 259)

Sonya Sones writes this entertaining book in poem style. It does have a lot to do with many real life problems for teens. This book would be mostly directed towards seventh to eighth graders. Around 13 years of age. The genre of this book is fiction. It takes place in her school and around her town. The theme of this book is love. To know someone is to love someone. To love someone is to be with them.



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This is your book, 2008-03-07
If you are an American woman, you will hear your teen years in this book. Don't let the teen label fool you- it's a great read for any of the girls who still feel sixteen some days.

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