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.
Publishers Weekly
Drawing on the recognizable cadences of teenage speech, Sones (Stop Pretending) poignantly captures the tingle and heartache of being young and boy-crazy. The author keenly portrays ninth-grader Sophie's trajectory of lusty crushes and disillusionment whether she is gazing at Dylan's smoldery dark eyes or dancing with a mystery man to music that is slow/ and/ saxophony. Best friends Rachel and Grace provide anchoring friendships for Sophie as she navigates her home life as an only child with a distant father and a soap opera-devotee mother whose shrieking whips around inside me/ like a tornado. Some images of adolescent changes carry a more contemporary cachet, I got my period I prefer/ to think of it as/ rebooting my ovarian operating system, others are consciously clich?d, my molehills/ have turned into mountains/ overnight this just makes Sophie seem that much more familiar. With its separate free verse poems woven into a fluid and coherent narrative with a satisfying ending, Sophie's honest and earthy story feels destined to captivate a young female audience, avid and reluctant readers alike. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Romance
- Contemporary
- Romance
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Author : Sones, Sonya
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2003-02-01
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0689855532
ISBN-13 : 9780689855535
Item weight : 0.4 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 4.8 in x 7 in
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