What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
A teen boy confronts the complications of love in this relatable free verse novel featuring a new cover and larger trim size.

Don’t get me wrong—my girlfriend’s amazing.
But the way things have been going lately,
I’m starting to believe that the only thing worse
than not getting what you want,

is getting it.

Picking up where What My Mother Doesn’t Know leaves off, this is the story of what happens next—told from the perspective of Murphy, Sophie’s new boyfriend. And even though Murphy’s thrilled to be with Sophie, the consequences of their relationship—and the temptations outside of it—force him to consider everything he knows about love. Told in free verse and brimming with authenticity, this novel provides unique insight into the mind of a young man.
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What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
A teen boy confronts the complications of love in this relatable free verse novel featuring a new cover and larger trim size.

Don’t get me wrong—my girlfriend’s amazing.
But the way things have been going lately,
I’m starting to believe that the only thing worse
than not getting what you want,

is getting it.

Picking up where What My Mother Doesn’t Know leaves off, this is the story of what happens next—told from the perspective of Murphy, Sophie’s new boyfriend. And even though Murphy’s thrilled to be with Sophie, the consequences of their relationship—and the temptations outside of it—force him to consider everything he knows about love. Told in free verse and brimming with authenticity, this novel provides unique insight into the mind of a young man.
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What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

by Sonya Sones
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

by Sonya Sones

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Overview

A teen boy confronts the complications of love in this relatable free verse novel featuring a new cover and larger trim size.

Don’t get me wrong—my girlfriend’s amazing.
But the way things have been going lately,
I’m starting to believe that the only thing worse
than not getting what you want,

is getting it.

Picking up where What My Mother Doesn’t Know leaves off, this is the story of what happens next—told from the perspective of Murphy, Sophie’s new boyfriend. And even though Murphy’s thrilled to be with Sophie, the consequences of their relationship—and the temptations outside of it—force him to consider everything he knows about love. Told in free verse and brimming with authenticity, this novel provides unique insight into the mind of a young man.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442493841
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date: 05/07/2013
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 291
Sales rank: 1,082,069
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Sonya Sones has written five YA novels-in-verse: To Be Perfectly Honest (A Novel Based on an Untrue Story), Stop Pretending, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, What My Mother Doesn’t Know, and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know. Her books have received many honors, including a Christopher Award, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination. But the coolest honor she ever got was when What My Mother Doesn’t Know made it onto the American Library Association’s list of the Top 100 Most Banned Books of the Decade (to see why, see p.46). She lives near the beach in southern California, and only tells the occasional fib. Visit her at SonyaSones.com or follow @SonyaSones on Twitter.

Read an Excerpt

Piece of Advice from Me to Me

Better brace yourself,
loser.

Because you
are about to be dumped.

Big time.

But It'll All Be Over in a Minute

All
be over
and done with.
Sophie's just standing there
staring at me
from across the cafeteria.

Geez.
Look at her.
Have you ever seen anyone so beautiful
in your life?

How could a girl like her
ever have wanted
to be with a guy like me?
Even just for two weeks?

Grace is waving her over.
Rachel's calling her.
"Fifi. Hey, Fee, we're over here!"

But I'm calling her, too.
Calling her with my eyes.
Come to me, Sophie.

Come to me . . .

Aw, Man

Who am I kidding?
I know exactly
what she's gonna do.

A second from now
she'll yank those killer blue eyes of hers
away from mine

and walk straight over to Rachel and Grace.
Like I'm not even here.
Like the best two weeks of my life

never

even

happened.

But They Did Happen

With everyone gone for winter break,
Sophie and I were
the only two people on the planet.

It was sort of like we were inside
one of those little snow globes,
you know?

Just the two of us,
completely alone,
chilling under that thick glass dome --

skating
and drawing and dancing
and kissing . . .

And I practically went into shock
when Sophie looked straight into my eyes
and told me she loved me.

Even if I come down
with a severe case of amnesia,
I'll never forget those two weeks.

And I'll Never Forget Those Kisses, Either

Because
making out with Sophie
was a very big deal for me.

See,
I'm not exactly what you'd call
the most experienced guy in the world.

Okay.
So I'm the least experienced guy
in the world.

Okay.
So Sophie was the first girl
I ever laid lips on.

But it was definitely
worth waiting
fourteen years for.

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