What My Mother Doesn't Know

Just two days ago I read the book What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones. I REALLY enjoyed reading this book. It was one of the first books in a long time that I had gone to buy and picked out myself just from browsing at the bookstore. I figured that this journal should be like any other journal and is worthy of my experience with the children's literature as well as the actual literature I read for the entries. This book was a story about 3 girls that are best friends and all somehow go through their own personal boy problems. The main character, Sophie, falls in love with the nerdiest boy in school over Christmas Break and can't bear to tell her friends and the rest of the school who her mystery boy is. But when school finally starts up again she has to make a choice: be with the boy who makes her happier than anyone else, or live up to some imaginary social standard. She ends up going to sit with her guy, Murphy at lunch and the books ends there. I couldn't believe it was over just like that!!! I wanted the story to keep going and tell about everything that they go through. This entire book was also written in a free verse poetic form. Almost every page was titled and followed by a new poem. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to many adolescents.