Sometimes do you feel like the world is surrounding you with questions? Heidi’s life does that. All her questions have to do with her Mama or So.B.It as she says. One day, Heidi finds some pictures in a closet and pulls them out. She shows them to Mama because they may give her something to know about Mama. Mama softly says “soof”. Heidi begs Mama to tell her what it means. She gets so frustrated with her so that she starts yelling at her. They both break down in tears. A few days later, Heidi kept thinking about it. She finally says to Bernadette, her “babysitter”, I’m going to Liberty, New York to find out about Mama. She can’t deal with not knowing anything about Mama anymore. She’s done. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves a twist and turns in a book. So.B.It has a lot of twists and turns and makes it very interesting and not predictable.

Life as “Heidi It”
is different. She’s not normal. Her Mama can’t talk, she is homeschooled, and has almost the same food every night for dinner. Bernadette acts like her mom. Bernadette feeds her and homeschools her. Bernadette is mainly in charge. Bernadette is taking care of two kids really. Mama can’t do anything. She can only say a few words that can’t explain her emotion. Bernadette can’t do anything without Heidi or else Mama cries. Heidi has to read books to Mama and color with her to comfort her and make Mama relaxed.

The content is organized by chapters. The chapter names are usually new words Mama says. One of the chapter names was soof. This is the chapter when the climax happened and Heidi decided to go to Liberty, New York to find out more about it. There are many twists and turns. I didn’t think Heidi would go all the way to Liberty just to find out a few facts about Mama. Also the end surprised me. I thought that in the end everything was going to be the normal ending of happy ever after. It wasn’t and I really liked that. It gave the book a new meaning and some other questions that you could possibly have. There was also a moral. I think from Bernadette’s perspective, I got respect and listen to others. Like when Heidi should've listened to Bernadete about not going to Liberty. From Heidi’s perspective, it was to take the risk. Just like she was going to Liberty and demanding of answers.



I think the audience would be ages 8 and up. This book has nothing bad, but it uses a lot of advanced vocabulary to describe the emotion. I think the plot is easy to figure out and imagine. This book gives a good description for the setting. The vocabulary is not too difficult to understand, but once you look it up you will understand the scene better.

Do you feel like the world is surrounding you with questions? It is. In the end Heidi found out exactly what she needed to know. She left depressed though. Why you may ask. Find out yourself. Read this adventurous book for a good read.