Talk:What My Mother Doesn't Know

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

I am afraid I must question the neutrality of a certain comment in this article.

The article contains a number of well stated points in neutral language, including "The free verse novel follows ninth-grader Sophie as she struggles through the daily grind of being a freshman in high school, her romantic crushes and family life." and "The companion book (sic) What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know, written from the perspective of Sophie's boyfriend Robin, was published in 2007." These remarks are informative, independently verifiable and have the substance of fact rather opinion.

Unfortunately, the article also asserts "The book is an amazing novel for teens to read, and opens minds about love and lust." This is opinion, not the substance of fact. It does not convey independently verifiable fact but rather opinion. That this is unquestionably the opinion of a fan, amounting to a sales pitch, is immaterial: were this the opinion of a detractor, asserting causes not to buy the book, the statement would be equally unacceptable.

In short, let's wee if we can stick to just the facts and leave opinions out of it: the article it much better off without the remark: "this book is an amazing novel for teens to read....".

The fact the the work "amazing" is used outside of it's lexical meaning is of course objectionable but this is of much less importance.

The "sic" in my comments refers to a missing comma I would suggest should follow the word "book". Grammatically correct construction of the embedded modifier "What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know" should be: "The companion book, "What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know", is written from the perspective of Sophie's boyfriend Robin and was published in 2007."

David Corliss (talk) 04:07, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

"What my Mother Doesn't Know" Review and Summary By Faith Barbieri

"What My Mother Doesn't know",is a great read, I admit it, although its highly inappropriate,  but only for children under 12. I am 13 years old, and I had read this book for 5 classes at school, I missed some of the classes because I was so obsessed with the book, but who could blame me, its a good book. But this book is about A girl named Sophie, and she is starting to go out with a boy named Dylan, and then later in the book, she soon meets a boy on internet chat, she starts liking a boy named Chaz but she doesn't know he's a pervert until later in the story. Then by 50 pages by the end of the book she soon finds herself in love with Robin Murphy(School Dork) which was her "Mystery Man", at the Halloween dance right after she saw her Ex-Boyfriend Dylan, which was a big mistake even though she liked Chaz and broke Dylan's some what broken heart. By the end of the story, Rachel and her other best friend would like to know who this mysterious boyfriend was. But by the end of the book, she fights sitting with her best friends or Robin Murphy, but she chose Robin, Robin was sitting by himself, a lot of people thought that Murphy was ugly and un-dateable, but the were all wrong, someone fell in deep love with Murphy, Sophie had... the students at lunch were surprised of this major accomplishment that Murphy had made. Rachel and her other best friend were very surprised to see that her boyfriend was Murphy, because Sophie herself thought that he was also un-dateable and ugly, but she found herself in positions that she couldn't get out of. My rate on the book is 5 stars...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.116.209 (talk) 19:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)