Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Book Awards
Shortlisted for the 2017 Essex Book
Awards
Nominated for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie
Medal
Junior Library Guild Selection (USA)
ISBN: 9781471404801
Ebook: 9781471404788
Publication Date: 03 Sep 15
Imagine discovering a secret SO nuts that it COMPLETELY does your helix in and makes your worms pop out of your mush in a TOTAL muddle.
This is what
happens to Sophie.
Sophie Nieuwenleven is sort of English and sort
of Belgian. Sophie and her family came to live in Belgium when she
was only four or five years old, but she's fourteen now and has
never been quite sure why they left England in the first place.
Then, one day, Sophie makes a startling discovery. Finally Sophie
can unlock the mystery of who she really is. This is a story about
identity and confusion - and feeling so utterly freaked out that
you just can't put it into words. But it's also about hope. And the
belief that, somehow, everything will work out OK.
SOPHIE SOMEONE is a tale of well-intentioned but
stupid parenting, shock, acceptance and, ultimately, forgiveness,
written in a brave, memorable and unique language all of its
own.
"A pacy, exuberant story full of wit and charm."
- Costa Children's Book Award Judges
"This is an absolutely exquisite
book from start to finish."
- Book Trust
ISBN: 9781471404894
USA/Canada paperback by Candlewick Press