So B. It Hardcover - 2004

First line

If truth was a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper around it and name its color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

From the rear cover

You couldn?t really tell about Mama?s brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl?s, and she only knew twenty-three words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet. Most of the words were common ones, like good and more and hot, but there was one word only my mother said, soof.

Although she lives an unconventional lifestyle with her mentally disabled mother and their doting neighbor, Bernadette, Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother?s vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi?s thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.

A dramatic tour de force by the best-selling author of Regular Guy.

Media reviews

Citations

• ALA Best Books Young Adults, 02/15/2005, Page 1014
• ALA Notable Children's Books, 02/15/2005, Page 1022
• Booklist, 06/01/2004, Page 1731
• Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2005, Page 774
• Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/15/2005, Page 774
• Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2004, Page 44
• Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2004, Page 462
• Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2004, Page 388
• Kirkus Review - Children, 05/15/2004, Page 499
• Kliatt, 05/01/2004, Page 15
• Publishers Weekly, 05/31/2004, Page 75
• School Library Journal, 07/01/2004, Page 114
• Voice of Youth Advocates, 12/01/2004, Page 397