Sonya Sones

Sonya Sones
Occupation	author, film editor
Genre	Children's books, Young adult, novels
Notable works	What My Mother Doesn't Know
Website
http://www.sonyasones.com/

Sonya Sones is an American writer of young adult novels. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives near the beach in Southern California. After graduating from Hampshire College she taught film at Harvard University; her other jobs have included baby clothes designer, animator, photographer, and film editor. Her style differs from most contemporary writers in that her novels are told in verse form rather than prose. This means that they each is a series of poems which, when read in order, tell a story.

Sones’s first three verse novels have won numerous awards, including a Christopher Award, the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and a nomination for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The American Library Association has named all three verse novels Best Books for Young Adults, and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. In 2004 and 2005, the ALA included What My Mother Doesn’t Know on their list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books . In 2004, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies was chosen a Popular Paperback by the ALA and received a Cuffie Award from Publishers Weekly for the Best Book Title of the Year.

Her fourth book, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know, was published by Simon and Schuster in June, 2007. It’s the sequel to What My Mother Doesn’t Know, and picks up right where the other story leaves off, only it's told from Robin's point of view. It received a starred review in Booklist, and was chosen a Quick Pick by the American Library Association and will be in included on the California Readers high school level reading list.

Sones is married to screenwriter Bennett Tramer of Saved by the Bell. The two of them released a picture book, Violet and Winston, in Spring 2009. It is illustrated by 2006 Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka.

At the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Sones has participated in panel discussions. She was the moderator on the panel "Young Adult Fiction: Teens and Turmoil" with Gayle Forman, Jandy Nelson and Cynthia Kadohata during the 2010 event.

List of works

Novels in verse

• Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (HarperCollins 1999)
• What My Mother Doesn't Know (Simon and Schuster 2001)
• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies (Simon and Schuster 2004)
• What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know (Simon and Schuster 2007)

Short stories in verse

Short stories in verse are included in numerous anthologies, including:

• Love and Sex (2001) - a story called Secret Shelf
• Necessary Noise (2003) - a story called Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
• Sixteen: Stories About that Sweet and Bitter Birthday (2004) - a story called Cat Got Your Tongue

Children's Books

• Violet and Winston (Dial 2009)i love pussy in my mouth and corns coming out of my penis is also a very good book by sonya sones

External links

• The author's official website http://www.sonyasones.com/