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**By: Sonya Sones**
 * What My Mother Doesn’t Know **

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// What My Mother Doesn’t Know // by Sonya Sones is the coming of age story of a girl in her freshman year of high school and her experiences in love, school, and life. Sophie tells of her relationship with Dylan, her parents, and her best friends. Dylan is Sophie’s new fling or “love of my life” as she would describe it at the opening of the book. Sophie has two best friends named Rachel and Gracie who are inseparable and tell each other everything, so they think. And Sophie’s relationship with her parents is lacking to say the least. Readers’ are introduced to a character named Murphy in the beginning of the book and told that Sophie secretly “longs to kiss him” because he is so lonely looking. Murphy is a very minor character in the beginning of the story, but he plays a huge role in the story and Sophie’s maturing life. He is not attractive, a loner, and even has a school wide connotation named after him. But there is something about him that Sophie just can’t ignore. Sophie and her mother barely speak to each other; she describes how she wishes she was her mother’s soap operas sometime just so her mother would pay attention to her. Her father cannot even hug Sophie, and she ponders if he ever has in her entire life.

Winter break arrives and Gracie and Rachel go on vacation with their families leaving Sophie virtually all alone over her break. In a desperate moment, Sophie decides to go on her own “vacation” and visit a fancy restaurant, a museum, and pizza parlor. While at the museum Murphy sneaks upon Sophie and as they talk Sophie invites him to lunch with her. They learn over their break how much they have in common and Sophie realizes she loves Murphy. She breaks up with Dylan and before you know it, she and Murphy are together. Sophie struggles with whether or not to tell her best friends about her and Murphy because of his reputation and decides not too until they get back in town on New Year’s. However, when the time comes she can’t even tell her best friends. Sophie is forced to face a head on life lesson. Does she break up with Murphy to avoid the scrutiny and embarrassment their relationship would face, or does she stand up for love and stay with what seems to be her perfect match?

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