So+B.+It

__So B. It__ is about a girl named Heidi and her mother who is mentally challenged. Heidi and mama live in an apartment with a lady named Bernadette as their neighbor who is practically family. Heidi has so many questions to ask her mother. And Heidi really wants to know what “soof” is and what her real name is. Heidi then finds pictures of her at Liberty Home in Liberty, New York. So Heidi travels to Liberty by herself since mama was the way she was and Bernadette with agora-phobia which means the fear of going outside. Since she is too young to ride busses by herself she finds someone to be her “mother.” she travels thousands of miles from Nevada to New York to meet Thurman Hill, the founder. She knows nothing about her history and learns more than what she wanted. She had a grandpa, grandma, father who also has mama’s problem. My favorite part of the book is when Heidi figured out that “soof’ meant Sophia. And when she figured that “So be it” was how mama tried to say her name Sophia. Also when she found out that the some people in the picture was her father when he was younger and Thurman Hill also when he was younger. And I find it really weird how Heidi makes all those lucky guesses when she guessed how many jelly beans were in the jelly bean jar and when she guessed right when she was guessing heads and tails and got them all right. And the sad part was when mama died. I really recommend this book.

Review by Natalia Vega