Sonya Sones
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Sonya Sones is an American writer of young adult novels. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives near the beach in Southern California. After graduating from Hampshire College she taught film at Harvard University; her other jobs have included baby clothes designer, animator, photographer, and film editor. Her style differs from most contemporary writers in that her novels are told in verse form rather than prose. This means that they are comprised of a series of poems which, when read in order, tell a story.
Sones’s first three novels-in-verse have won numerous awards, including a Christopher Award, the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and a nomination for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The American Library Association has named all three of her novels-in-verse Best Books for Young Adults, and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. In 2004 and 2005, the ALA included What My Mother Doesn’t Know on their list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books [1] . In 2004, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies received a Cuffie Award from Publisher’s Weekly for the Best Book Title of the Year (though Sones says she would have vastly preferred a Newbery).
Her next book, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know, will be published by Simon and Schuster in May, 2007. It’s the sequel to What My Mother Doesn’t Know, and picks up right where the other story leaves off, only it's told from Robin's point of view.
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[edit] List of works
[edit] Novels in verse
- Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (HarperCollins 1999)
- What My Mother Doesn't Know (Simon and Schuster 2001)
- One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies (Simon and Schuster 2004)
- What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know (Simon and Schuster 2007)
[edit] Short stories in verse
Short stories in verse are included in the following anthologies:
- Love and Sex (2001) - a story called Secret Shelf
- Necessary Noise (2003) - a story called Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
- Sixteen: Stories About that Sweet and Bitter Birthday (2004) - a story called Cat Got Your Tongue
