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another book from my childhood because i'm forever chasing the nostalgia of being young and carefree. i don't believe i ever actually read this book, but it was wildly popular when i was in elementary school and i remember seeing it everywhere. as an adult, the writing style was actually very impressive and i would definitely read more by this author. also, the mystery aspect of it kept me guessing until the very end. there were a few plotlines that didn't wrap up as nicely as i wish they had, b...
I liked this book. It wasn't my favorite, but I enjoyed it. It was a good story about a young girl's life. She had to go through many tough adventures that I don't think a 12 year old girl should have to go through. The book was written by Sarah Weeks. The girl's name was Heidi. She had a Mama who was disabled. Heidi said that her mom had a "bum brain." Her mom can't take care of herself, so she has a neighbor, Bernadette, who watches over them. She is kind of like a guardian to Heidi. Bernadet
So B It is a delightful story about 12 year old Heidi who is in search of her identity. She lives with her mother who has a mental disability and knows exactly 23 words. Together with their neighbor Bernadette, they live in Reno and get by through Heidi's luck with winning at video games and Bernie's disability check. One of the words that Heidi's mother knows is "soof" and there lies the driving factor to Heidi's travels to find her identity and what the word 'soof' means. Bernie has named Mama...
3.5 stars ✨
This book just makes you want to cry at the end! This is my second time reading it and I still felt like I was going to cry! It is just an amazing book!!!!
If you've ever read a book that haunted you long after the last page ended, then you understand the difficulty in writing a review that expresses the sheer beauty of an incredible tale.Attempting will be feeble, but here goes:There is security for 12 year old Heidi. Bernadette, a loving neighbor, provides help and guidance in taking care of her severely mentally challenged mother. Limited in the ability to express words and thoughts, Heidi's mother repeats one word over and over.Suffering from a...
This review contains spoilers. This was our book club pick this month. Its a children's book that won an award It's a really short read about a 12 year old girl who's mother is very mentally disabled, and they both live next door to a woman who is agoraphobic who more or less takes care of them. The only thing Heidi knows about her mother is that she calls herself So B It, she knows only 23 words and she says the word soof. This leads her on a quest to find the truth about her mother and herself...
Twelve-year-old Heidi, homeschooled by her unofficial guardian and neighbor Bernadette, has a mentally disabled mother and only one friend her age. But she doesn’t seem to have the types of problems I would imagine someone in her situation to have. Heidi is obsessed with discovering the mystery of her past. How did she and her child-like mother arrive at Bernadette’s door in an apartment building in Reno, Nevada when Heidi was just one week old? Heidi’s mother, who calls herself “Sobeit,” and wh...
Light hearted, heart warming and joyful A nicely written story, the characters are unusual but easy to relate with. Born to a mentally unstable mother, a twelve year old comes of age in order to discover her origin. Bold, fearless and lucky, she proves to be a force to contend with. Light reading, this is the kind of story that brings the reader joy, a quality more authors should embrace!
So B. It is a hearting warming novel about a young girl named Heidi who wants to know more about her life, where she came from, and who she really is. She lives with her mother who is mentally disabled and only knows 23 words; she also lives with her neighbor Bernadette, who took Heidi and her mother in. Heidi sets off to an adventure to Liberty, New York where she will hopefully find herself, and her mama, some answers. When she arrives she gets a lot of answers, like what soof meant. Unfortuna...
A student checked this book out from the library for me to read because it was one of her favorite books in elementary school. It was absolutely charming and a little bit magical.
This isn't sophisticated high-brow literature, but it is touching and honest, and it got me right in the feels, at least as far as the main storyline goes. Everything else, though, I had some issues with.Just about every review of this book contains a book-report-like summary, so I'm going to skip that and just talk about my thoughts. I couldn't imagine growing up the way that Heidi did, with a mother who could barely communicate, and definitely not care for herself, and her only other caregiver...
I wish I could remember how I stumbled across this title. I'm glad I did.One of the things I love about YA fiction is that the books don't mess around. They go straight to the important things; how can someone possibly love me? who am I? how can I survive this trauma? They draw us in, wrap us up in the world of the protagonist, allow us to suffer the poignancy which is life, and then leave us facing the rest of life, usually feeling a bit bruised or tender. Without being overly dramatic, this bo...
Heidi doesn't remember how she and her mother, So B. It, came to live in Reno. As their neighbor, Bernadette, puts it, they just seemed to "fall out of the sky." Out of them all, Heidi is by far the most normal. Heidi's mother is severely mentally disabled, and Bernadette is agoraphobic and hasn't left her house in years. Heidi's mother has a vocabulary of 23 words - but there's only one word out of those 23 that interests Heidi: soof. She has no idea what it means and she becomes obsessed with
I loved this book! It was beautifully written and the story drew me right in. Great pieces of wisdom were woven throughout and the book has a very satisfying ending, though not the one I expected. Everyone should read this one, and it would make a great read aloud.
As a homeschooling mother, I was intrigued by the sound of this YA novel and all the positive reviews.12-year-old Heidi has a very irregular family unit. Her mentally-disabled mother knows only a total of 23 words, and she and Heidi are both cared for by a loving neighbour, Bernadette, who has such severe agorophobia that just to step into the passage of their apartment building makes her collapse. Heidi longs to know her own biological background and wishes some of her mother's words would drop...
“Another flash of lighting spilt the sky, followed by a boom of thunder so loud, it rattled the windows behind me. Rain coming down hard and fast at an angle, and I had to jump over several large puddles to get to the tiny little storefront two doors down with a faded cardboard sign in the window I hadn’t noticed before. ABC cab. This detailed quote is from the amazing book So B. It by Sarah Weeks. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars and I would definitely recommend this book to a friend b...
I liked this book. It wasn't my favorite, but it was still good. It was written by Sarah Weeks. This book was about a girl named Heidi and her Mama who is disabled. Heidi is about 12 because they don't know when she was born. They live with their neighbor Bernedette. Bernedette is also Heidi's gaurdian. Bernedette says "It was as if they had fallen from the sky." Heidi really wants to know who she is. She doesn't know where she was born or what her last name is. She also doenst know any other f
I remember reading this in middle school and having it be one of those books that actually really stuck with me. I just watched the movie and really liked it so I highly recommend!