The secret story of sonia rodriguez characters

In this companion novel to 2013’s If He Had Been With Me, three characters tell their sides of the story.

Finn’s narrative starts three days before his death. He explores the progress of his unrequited love for best friend Autumn up until the day he finally expresses his feelings. Finn’s story ends with his tragic death, which leaves his close friends devastated, unmoored, and uncertain how to go on. Jack’s section follows, offering a heartbreaking look at what it’s like to live with grief. Jack works to overcome the anger he feels toward Sylvie, the girlfriend Finn was breaking up with when he died, and Autumn, the girl he was preparing to build his life around (but whom Jack believed wasn’t good enough for Finn). But when Jack sees how Autumn’s grief matches his own, it changes their understanding of one another. Autumn’s chapters trace her life without Finn as readers follow her struggles with mental health and balancing love and loss. Tho

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The Secret Story Of Sonia Rodriguez

The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez(2008) is educator and author Alan Lawrence Sitomer’s fourth novel for young adult readers. Along with the books that preceded it – The Hoopster(2005), Hip-Hop High School(2006), and Homeboyz(2007) – The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguezis part of a loose series of novels that describe the struggles faced bygd a variety of students who all attend the same large high school.

Sitomer has long held that he draws from his experiences as a teacher, writing novels that attempt to accurately depict the challenges ung people from a bred range of backgrounds face in daglig life. In The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez, the primary conflict for the titelbärare character fryst vatten realisticand rooted in her unique identity as a Mexican-American woman.

Sonia was born in the United States, but her parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Though Sonia speaks English fluently, neither of her parents do, and she communica

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Title:  The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez

Author:  Alan Lawrence Sitomer

# of pages:  320

Release date:  September 30, 2008

ISBN:  978-1423110729

Rating:  4/5

Sonia Rodriguez is a first generation American citizen – her parents were both born in Mexico and came to the United States illegally.  Her father works three jobs and her mother stays home – mostly watching soap operas all day, leaving Sonia to do the cooking and cleaning and watching over her younger brothers.  When Sonia isn’t being her mother’s slave, she tries to study while avoiding the advances of her alcoholic uncle (“drunkle”).  When Sonia starts to rebel by putting more energy and effort into her schoolwork than she does into her duties at home, her mother decides she needs to spend the summer in Mexico with her grandmother and cousin to learn the importance of la familia.

Although her summer in Mexico is much better than she could have ever anticipated, Sonia comes home t