So B. It (Tayler Hersom)

So B. It
Sarah Weeks
Scholastic Inc.
243

Growing up in a house with a disabled mother and a helping neighbor, Heidi is a curious daughter looking for some kind of answers about her life. She is unwilling to give up on her mother, and keeps track of how well she progresses as time goes on. With only using the twenty three words for clues that her mother provides for her, Heidi has desperate determination and passion to find the truth about her mother and her birth. She begins to take trips, hoping somewhere along the road she'll stumble upon an answer. The trips seem more and more hopeless, learning the lesson that sometimes no matter how bad you want to know something, you just can't.

The audience of this book is a high school student, or even a young adult looking for a deep and touching piece of literature to read. "There were plenty of women around, all shapes and colors and sizes, a lot of them looked pretty friendly, but instead of picking one out, I found an empty bench and sat down" (Weeks, 99).

This quote shows part of the author's writing style. It shows the way Sarah Weeks uses description to make the reader and her audiences really begin to visualize the scene.

"I didn't tell Bernie about my plan. We both had our minds made up in opposite directions about me going to liberty, and I didn't see the point in discussing it anymore" (Weeks, 79). This quote shows how Sarah Weeks characterizes Heidi as very powerful, and determined to find out about her past.

"At first she couldn't remember what to do- she got the order all mixed up- but Bernie kept working with her and talking softly to her, and finally one day Mama opened a can all by herself" (Weeks, 6) In this quote, Sarah Weeks begins to show her audience what Heidi's mother is really like. She makes them notice exactly how Mama functions, and the way the book is going to be.

"If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name its color, I know just what I would call it- dinosaur skin" (Weeks, 1). This quote stuck with me because it showed me how Heidi had an imagination of her own. It made me realize that she could do anything that she wanted, if she just believed in herself.

"I'd be lying if I said that given a choice, I wouldn't rather know than not know. But there are some things you can just know for no good reason other than you do, and then there are other things that no matter how badly you want to know them, you just can't" (Weeks, 2) This quote also stuck with me because of nothing other than the fact that it is true. In life there are some things you just can't find an answer to no matter how hard you look for them.

"I wanted to hug him, but I wasn't sure how he'd feel about that, so instead I punched him in the arm. He grinned and punched me back, but not too hard" (Weeks, 98) I liked this quote because often times in friendships, something great happens, and you want to thank them badly, but some people don't know quite how to approach it. Especially in a young, male and female friendship, things can get awkward, but at the same time you find it necessary to thank them some how.

This book was really touching to me. The way I can relate myself to this book is by finding someone in my life who is always there for me every step of the way. Just because I don't have the same situation that Heidi does, with a disabled mother, I still feel as though sometimes I need someone to help me through when times get tough. I felt as though this is a piece of literature that anyone can read and enjoy.