Sonya Sones has written five YA novels-in-verse: To Be Perfectly Honest (A Novel Based on an Untrue Story), Stop Pretending, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, What My Mother Doesn’t Know, and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know. Her books have received many honors, including a Christopher Award, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination. But the coolest honor she ever got was when What My Mother Doesn’t Know made it onto the American Library Association’s list of the Top 100 Most Banned Books of the Decade (to see why, see p.46). She lives near the beach in southern California, and only tells the occasional fib. Visit her at SonyaSones.com or follow @SonyaSones on Twitter.
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
by Sonya Sones
Paperback
(Reissue)
$12.99
- ISBN-13: 9781442493841
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
- Publication date: 05/07/2013
- Edition description: Reissue
- Pages: 291
- Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.90(d)
- Age Range: 12 - 18 Years
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A teen boy confronts the complications of love in this relatable free verse novel featuring a new cover and larger trim size.
Don’t get me wrong—my girlfriend’s amazing.
But the way things have been going lately,
I’m starting to believe that the only thing worse
than not getting what you want,
is getting it.
Picking up where What My Mother Doesn’t Know leaves off, this is the story of what happens next—told from the perspective of Murphy, Sophie’s new boyfriend. And even though Murphy’s thrilled to be with Sophie, the consequences of their relationship—and the temptations outside of it—force him to consider everything he knows about love. Told in free verse and brimming with authenticity, this novel provides unique insight into the mind of a young man.
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Children's Literature - Janice DeLong
This novel-in-verse is a "selfie" of the highest order. It is more poignant and humorous for being told in the voice of Robin Murphy, an outsider and object of ridicule par excellence. No one sits with Robin at lunch and when anyone else does something really dumb, his peers will call the gaffe a "Murphy." Enter, Sophie—attractive, creative, and surrounded by her crowd. What do these two have in common? The beautiful part of this novel is that during the summer of their fourteenth year, Sophie and Robin discover each other at an art museum by accident, and soon they realize how much they like each other. Sharing a sense of humor, intellectual level, and interest in art, they fall in love. This is beautiful, especially Sophie's loyalty in the face of brutal rejection when school begins in the fall. There is a great deal that the young audience can and will learn from this story about courage in the face of bullying and strength under fire. However, there is a less appealing side of the book, particularly much sexual foreplay and nudity. For the innocent early teen, this is heady stuff, and for the young reader who is sexually active, the author seems to give tacit approval to precisely the type of intimacy that may lead to promiscuity and heartbreak. What Sones "doesn't know" seems to be the adult writer's responsibility to her readership. Reviewer: Janice DeLong