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    Lost for Words

    By Alice Kuipers

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    My New Year's resolution: I'm moving on from everything that's happened. I'm not going to talk about it, think about it, let the memory pounce upon me like a waiting tiger, nothing.

    All Sophie wants to do is forget. But it's not easy now that everything's changed. The house feels too big, school drags on for too long, lights are too bright, the room spins, and her hands get sweaty for no reason. And she can't remember why she was ever best friends with Abigail, who is obsessed with parties and boys. Only the new girl, Rosa-Leigh, with her prose poems and utter confidence, might understand. But talking to her seems impossible.

    Lost in memories of the life she once had, Sophie retreats into herself. But there's only so long she can keep everything bottled up inside before she explodes. Maybe by confronting the tragedy of her past she'll figure out how to fix her future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperTeen
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9780062001498
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    Alice Kuipers

    Alice Kuipers is the author of four novels and two picture books. Her work has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and selected as a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year. She lives in Saskatoon, Canada.

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    • 5/5
      There was girl named Sophie.She is 16 years old . She strugles to be normal in school.All Sophie wanted was to forget everything. Sophies's mom is a inventer. Sophie doesn't know why she became friends with Abigail.She met a boy named Dan who she liked alot.Her friend Abigail started to smoke. She met a new friend named Rosa- Leigh.Sophie also became good friends with her.I liked this book because I felt that I connected with Sophie. She was struggling to be successful in school and I was once struggling in school. So I felt what she felt like. I liked how she pushed her self to do better. She also faced her fears and talked to Dan.The last thing that I liked about is that she never gave up to make new friends.
    • 4/5
      My #bookaday selection, a Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award nominee, keeps Young Adult readers captivated as the tragic death of Sophie's sister, Emily, is slowly revealed to readers. Readers share in Sophie and her mother's struggles to cope with grief and loss.
    • 2/5
      Having lost her older sister recently in a tragic bombing whilst travelling to the National Gallery on a train, Sophie finds herself struggling with her loss and, after it was suggested by a councillor, begins writing her thoughts about the present and her memories of Emily in a journal.At the start I felt very sorry for Sophie, but that didn't last long! I found her to be extremely sell-obsessed, judgemental and uptight. For most of the book she was either yelling at her mother and friends, feeling sorry for herself or in tears. I realise Sophie's mother wasn't always able to give her daughter the emotional support she needed, as she was lost in her own grief, however, the way Sophie spoke to, and behaved around, her mother was totally unacceptable! By the halfway mark I had had enough of her.I also loathed Dan, the boy Sophie was obsessed with. He was a two-timing wretch who blasély cheated on one girl after another, totally uncaring of their feelings.In fact, Rosa-Leigh, the new student from Canada who befriended Sophie and Kalila, a Muslim girl in the same year level as Sophie, were the only characters I actually liked. Both girls showed compassion and kindness to Sophie even when she didn't deserve it.
    • 2/5
      I kept reading to know what the worst thing she ever did was. But the biggest problem with this book is that for 80% I didn't know what it was she did and because I didn't, I just didn't care about Sophie. She was annoying and whiney and bratty. The way she referred to the worst thing was dramatic and seemed like she was just being difficult. The reveal came, but it came way too late. Her sister died in a subway bombing. If it had of been revealed earlier, I would've understood where Sophie was coming from and why she was acting out. But it didn't, so I just didn't care. 2 stars.
    • 3/5
      Sophie, a 16 year old girl, lives with her mother. She idolised her sister Emily who had been killed previously. We don't learn how Emily died until late in the novel and it is not until then that we know what was the worst thing she ever did and indeed who she was (spoiler it was Emily whos stopped to tie her shoelace up ans thus missed her train putting her on the London train that was blown up in the terrorist attacks). Sophie is encouraged by her therapist to keep a journal which she does from January the 1st where she chronicles her search for understanding and friendship.
    • 4/5
      Could you imagine losing your sister in a terrorist attack and not being able to talk about it? The harsh feelings, the deep emotions and the incredible sadness that surrounds losing someone you dearly love. Then the panic attacks begin but life must continue on like normal. You must go to school, act normal, but you can’t seem to talk about this terrible awful event that has ruined your life forever. Alice Kuipers gives us a glimpse into a young teen’s life after losing her sister in a terrorist attack. Her sister was her best friend and now she is gone. Sophie doesn’t know how to deal with he grief and pain and because she was with her sister at the time of the attack and she survived she is now having panic attacks and thinks she is dying. Her mother isn’t much help as she is dealing with her own pain in a different way and can’t seem to help Sophie either. Sophie’s friends just want life to resume to normal by going to parties, kissing boys and getting drunk. This book is a real look into a teen’s world of sorrow and pain and how she turns to journal writing as a coping mechanism. A well written book written by an English author about an event that could happen to any of us. Grades 8-
    • 5/5
      Sophie is just trying to get on with things, isn't that what they tell you to do after something like this. She's sure she would be fine if people would just stop asking how she's doing. She doesn't want to talk about it, she doesn't even want to think about. She just wants to be left alone.She's fine.But slowly Sophie is coming to realise that she is not fine. Not by a long shot. Last summer Sophie's world was turned upside down and nothing has been right since, not her friendship with her best friend, not her relationship with her mother, and certainty not her own mind.Sophie is angry all the time and living with the pain of what happened, the guilt, is tearing her apart. She doesn't want to think about it but its always on her mind, her sister is always on her mind and she can never forget her and what happened. But maybe, eventually, she can learn to live with it.The Worst Thing She Ever Did is a beautifully moving story full of heart about the loss, pain, confusion and anger felt when those you love are taken from you. Very much a bitter-sweet story of tragedy and grief, it is an emotional book that will bring tears to your eyes. Brilliantly written with feeling, you wont be able to put this book down.
    • 4/5
      This is an emotional book written in journal entry form. In some cases, this is a problem with me for books, but Kuipers writes to where it feels seamless to me. I got the feeling I was peeking into someone's private life, so she was successful getting me in Sophie's mind and world.The friendships are really unstable in this book, but I think that it reflects real life and the stress these are put under (ed and ptsd).It is frustrating yet also beautiful how the story unfolds, and finding out more about Sophie and Emily's relationship and how Emily died and how/if Sophie was involved/at fault.