The secret story of sonia rodriguez characters

  • A promising student in her third year of high school, it is Sonia's goal to become the first person in her family to go to college.
  • The protagonist, the main character, Sonia, is a smart, hardworking girl who is kind and woke about her situation.
  • 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.

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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 by 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 young people from a wide range of backgrounds face in daily life. In The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez, the primary conflict for the titular character is 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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    Pages & Paws

    The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez

    By Alan Lawrence Sitomer

    Hyperion Books, 2008

    Via: Library

    Genre: YA

    Pages: 332

    Note: We read this book awhile back. Recently re-discovered it. Thought it rates a revisit. So here ya go:

    Sonia Rodriguez fryst vatten the family work camel.  The oldest daughter in a family of nine, the 15 year-old wants to keep her grades up and the first member of her family to graduate from high school.

    But the demands of caring for her pregnant-with-twins mother (“Sonia….. Ayudame!”) who spends all day, every day watching Spanish soaps, plus cooking, cleaning and caring for her younger siblings as well as endless trips to the tienda for cervezas for her loutish “drunkle” are overwhelming.  “In mi cultura,” Sonia explains – a culture she both loves and hates – “familia es todo.” (Family is everything.)

    So she misses three days of school to man homemade tamales for her drunk

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    THE SECRET STORY OF SONIA RODRÍGUEZ

    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