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The main character Heidi is trying to find out what the word "soof" means that her disabled mother always says. She doesn't know anything about her or her mother except that Bernadette their caretaker found them in front of her door step. Bernadette heard a sound outside her door and thought it was one of her cats. She opened the door and mama was in front of the door holding Heidi out in the rain. Bernadette has been taking care of her mom's mental disability and her. Heidi has been keeping tra
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Realistic Fiction
This book was good, but I had heard a lot of talk about it and I guess that I was just expecting more. Heidi is a young girl who is searching for answers to her life. She has no idea where her or her mother came from. She doesn’t know who her father or any of her other family is, except for her mother. But, her mother cannot help her find any answers to these burning questions because she is mentally incapable. The only two people that Heidi knows for the whole first part of her ...more
This book was good, but I had heard a lot of talk about it and I guess that I was just expecting more. Heidi is a young girl who is searching for answers to her life. She has no idea where her or her mother came from. She doesn’t know who her father or any of her other family is, except for her mother. But, her mother cannot help her find any answers to these burning questions because she is mentally incapable. The only two people that Heidi knows for the whole first part of her ...more
This book recieved the Parents' Choice Gold Award. The genre is realistic ficiton.
Heidi is a twelve year old little girl, who lives in an apartment with her mother (So B. It) and her neighbor Bernadette. So B. It has M.R., and Bernadette takes care of her and Heidi. Heidi has never know life outside her apartment/block. One day she finds old pictures of her mother, and starts questioning where she came from. She ends up taking a bus from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York to find the answers to h ...more
Heidi is a twelve year old little girl, who lives in an apartment with her mother (So B. It) and her neighbor Bernadette. So B. It has M.R., and Bernadette takes care of her and Heidi. Heidi has never know life outside her apartment/block. One day she finds old pictures of her mother, and starts questioning where she came from. She ends up taking a bus from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York to find the answers to h ...more
Twelve year old Heidi wants to find out who she is. She lives in an apartment with her mother So Be It, who is mentally retarded. Her mother can only say 23 words. The neighbor Bernadette, who is afraid to leave her apartment, has been raised Heidi and looking after Heidi's mother since Heidi was a week old. Heidi finds a camera that has been in the back of a closet for 12 years and has the pictures developed. There is a picture of her mother when she was pregnant with Heidi, a woman in a red sw
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So B. It
This book is a hart touching story about a young girl who lives with her mom who is Mentally Retarded and her neighbor/caregiver who is scared stiff to ever leave her house. After the main girl hears a story about her mother’s past she decides to adventure out into the world, on her own, to find out the truth. This is a great story about people who are different and about overcoming fear. This is a great book to teach kids about differences. After reading this book students could learn ...more
This book is a hart touching story about a young girl who lives with her mom who is Mentally Retarded and her neighbor/caregiver who is scared stiff to ever leave her house. After the main girl hears a story about her mother’s past she decides to adventure out into the world, on her own, to find out the truth. This is a great story about people who are different and about overcoming fear. This is a great book to teach kids about differences. After reading this book students could learn ...more
