Sonya Sones

YA Event: Ellen Hopkins and Sonya Sones

Wednesday, September 11, 7:00 p.m.

Two great talents, two new books, twice the fun!

Smoke by Ellen Hopkins

Pattyn Von Stratten’s father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run in this rivetting companion to New York Times bestseller, Burned. After far too many years of abuse at the hands of her father, and after the tragic loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn is desperate for peace. But is it even possible to rebuild a life when everything you’ve known has burned to ash and lies seem far safer than the truth?

To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story by Sonya Sones

Fifteen-year-old Colette is addicted to lying. Her shrink says this is because she’s got a bad case of daughter-of-a-famous-movie-star disorder—so she lies to escape from her mother’s massive shadow. But Colette doesn’t see it that way. She says she lies because it’s the most fun she can have with her clothes on. Not that she’s had that much fun with her clothes off. But then she meets Connor...

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes author Sonya Sones to the store to discuss and sign her new book, To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story, on Sunday, August 25th at 3pm. Bonus: she's bringing champagne and cookies! Colette is a fifteen-year old master liar, diagnosed with a terrible case of officially certified "Daughter of a Famous Movie Star Disorder." But lying isn't just the only way out from her mother's massive shadow, it's a defense against the typical insecurities of being a teenager. When her mother drags her away from Hollywood to spend the entire summer on location in a boring little town in the middle of nowhere, Colette meets an older, gorgeous, funny biker named Connor. So she lies to him, about her age, about her mother. What she doesn't realize is that Connor has a secret of his own. In this story of obsessive love, Sonya Sones delves into the murk of dishonesty: the effects of lies on the person who tells them and on the people to whom they are told.

Sonya Sones has written four other novels-in-verse for teens: 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 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination. 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.

Location: Street: Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood Additional: Brentwood Country Mart - 225 26th Street at San Vicente City: Santa Monica, Province: California Postal Code: 90402 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)