So B. It

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So B. It
Author	Sarah Weeks
Language	English
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	2004

So B. It is a children's book by Sarah Weeks. It won the 2007 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award.^[1]

[edit] Plot summary

When Heidi was an infant, she and and her mentally disabled mother arrived rain drenched at the doorstep of a woman named Bernadette, who suffered from agoraphobia. Bernadette accepted and loved them, and throughout Heidi's childhood, Bernadette took good care of Heidi and her mother. Eventually Heidi begins to question her past and the mysterious word her mother constantly repeats: "Soof." Each time Heidi asks Bernadette where she and her mother came from, Bernadette would simply answer that the day they walked into her life was the best thing that ever happened to her.Heidi started to get very depressed. When Heidi finds an old camera and develops the film, she sees glimpses of her family's past in the pictures. Twelve-year-old Heidi then sets out on a cross-country bus trip to find answers to her many questions. She finally comes upon a home for the mentally disabled, ran and owned by Thurman Hill, and discovers that her mother's real name was Sophia, had been involved with Elliot, Thurman's son, and when her mother became pregnant with Heidi, Thurman made a bargain with Sophia's mother. Thurman would pay for their living costs, as long as he didn't have to see the baby.So they then moved to Reno to live thier life there.