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    Sophie Flakes Out
    Sophie Flakes Out
    Sophie Flakes Out
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    Sophie Flakes Out

    By Nancy N. Rue

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    Sophie just wants a little bit of privacy. Willoughby’s got plenty of it—but she’s hanging out with a fast new crowd. And when her dad finds out, his harsh punishment shocks Sophie and her friends. What should they do? Whose rules are right?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateAug 30, 2009
    ISBN9780310568292
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    Nancy N. Rue

    Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband, Jim, have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee.

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      Sophie Flakes Out - Nancy N. Rue

      Other books in the growing Faithgirlz!™ library

      The Faithgirlz!™ Bible

      NIV Faithgirlz!™ Backpack Bible

      My Faithgirlz!™ Journal

       The Sophie Series

      Sophie’s World (Book One)

      Sophie’s Secret (Book Two)

      Sophie Under Pressure (Book Three)

      Sophie Steps Up (Book Four)

      Sophie’s First Dance (Book Five)

      Sophie’s Stormy Summer (Book Six)

      Sophie’s Friendship Fiasco (Book Seven)

      Sophie and the New Girl (Book Eight)

      Sophie Loves Jimmy (Book Ten)

      Sophie’s Drama (Book Eleven)

      Sophie Gets Real (Book Twelve)

       Nonfiction

      Body Talk

      Beauty Lab

      Everybody Tells Me to Be Myself but I Don’t Know Who I Am

      Girl Politics

      Check out www.faithgirlz.com

      ZONDERVAN

      Sophie Flakes Out

      Copyright © 2006, 2009 by Nancy Rue

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-56829-2

      This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Requests for information should be addressed to:

      Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Rue, Nancy N.

      Sophie flakes out / Nancy Rue.

            p.  cm.—(The Sophie series ; bk. 9) (Faithgirlz)

      Summary: Seventh-grader Sophie asks Jesus for guidance in dealing with her overprotective parents, her troubled friend, Willoughby, and a difficult Film Club project.

      ISBN 978-0-310-71024-0 (softcover)

      [1. Parent and child—Fiction. 2. Christian life—Fiction. 3. Conduct of life—Fiction.

      4. Middle schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series: Rue, Nancy N.

      Sophie series ; bk. 9. III. Series: Faithgirlz!

      PZ7.R88515Sjk 2006

      [Fic]—dc22                                                                             2005016638

      All Scripture quotations unless otherwise noted are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920. www.alivecommunucations.com

      Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan.

      Interior art direction and design: Sarah Molegraaf

      Cover illustrator: Steve James

      Interior design and composition: Carlos Estrada and Sherri L. Hoffman

      So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,

      but on what is unseen.

      For what is seen is temporary,

      but what is unseen is eternal.

      —2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Glossary

      About the Publisher

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      Dad-dy!" Sophie LaCroix closed her brown eyes behind her glasses so she wouldn’t narrow them at her father or, worse, roll them at him. Daddy didn’t like eye-rolling.

      Look, Soph, Daddy said. I can’t break it down for you any further. The answer is no. End of discussion.

      Sophie wailed anyway, pipsqueak voice rising to the kitchen ceiling. "I’ll be the only one in the whole entire school who doesn’t get to see the movie."

      Daddy squinted at her as he shrugged into his black NASA jacket. He didn’t like whining either. I’m sure there are other parents who don’t want their twelve-year-olds seeing a PG—13 movie about gangs.

      It’s a documentary! Sophie said. It’s about real life.

      Daddy’s dark eyebrows shot up. That makes it okay? He picked up his laptop case and ran his other hand down the back of his spiky hair. "Drive-by shootings and foul language are not a part of your real life, and I’d like to keep it that way."

      What do I tell Mrs. Clayton and Ms. Hess?

      Tell them I’ll be calling your principal with a full explanation.

      When Sophie opened her mouth, Daddy closed it with a black look. He didn’t like arguing more than he didn’t like anything.

      He’s calling Mr. Bentley? Sophie thought as she hoisted her backpack over her shoulder. That is the most humiliating thing

      I can think of.

      It was probably worse than humiliating. She’d have to ask her best friend Fiona Bunting, the walking dictionary, for a word to describe feeling like a kindergartner in a seventh-grade body.

      Don’t forget, it’s your day to watch Zeke after school, Daddy said from the doorway. Walk you to the bus stop, Baby Girl? How about NO! Sophie wanted to shriek. But she didn’t even want to find out how much Daddy didn’t like shrieking.

      As she trudged to the corner, Sophie felt as if she had a chain attached to her ankle, and for somebody as small for a twelve-year-old as she was, that was not a good thing. She could almost imagine it clanking on the sidewalk. But, then, she could imagine almost anything.

      But I don’t have to imagine how heinous this situation is! she told herself. It wasn’t just having to babysit her six-year-old brother while her mom, who was going to have LaCroix Kid Number Four in a few months, cooked dinner. Zeke wasn’t even that bad since he’d figured out New Baby Girl wasn’t going to wipe out life as he knew it. And it wasn’t just that Daddy wouldn’t let her go to the movie that everybody in the entire school was seeing that day—except her.

      It’s just all of it, Sophie thought.

      She climbed aboard the bus and slumped into her usual seat behind Harley and Gill, the two soccer-playing girls Sophie and her friends (the Corn Flakes) referred to as the Wheaties.

      Hi, you guys, she said.

      But they only nodded at her vaguely. Their eyes were glued to the other side of the bus, a few rows back.

      Dude, Gill said, her green eyes wide. Cell phones? She shook her head so that two lanky tendrils of reddish hair fell out from under her wool, billed cap.

      As usual, husky Harley just grunted.

      Sophie swiveled around to catch sight of two girls sitting on the reserved-for-eighth-graders-only side. The very blonde one with even blonder highlights had a phone pressed to her ear, and her striking blue eyes were dancing a reply to the person on the other end. She pulled her hair up in a handful and let it fall like a fountain of blondeness to her shoulders as she laughed.

      It’s only eight o’clock in the morning, Sophie whispered. Who could she be talking to?

      Probably the girl next to her, Gill said.

      The talker’s seatmate was a slender girl with a wispy cut to her honey brown hair that made her look like a stylish elf. Her lips were moving, but she seemed to be chatting to nobody.

      Where’s her phone? Sophie said to Gill.

      In her ear, Gill said. See the wire coming down?

      Just then the girl glanced their way, and Gill and Harley turned in their seats like they were about to be shot. But although there was an unspoken rule that seventh graders didn’t stare at eighth graders, just like they didn’t even venture into the eighth-grade halls, Sophie couldn’t pull her eyes from the girl’s golden brown ones as she raised her teen-magazine eyebrows at Sophie. Even though they’d been riding the same bus for three months, it was the first time she seemed to notice Sophie. Being seen by a girl who looked so together was like being under a spell.

      The girl spread out her palms as if to say, Well?

      Sorry, Sophie said. She shriveled back into her seventhgrade world.

      I can’t believe they’re taking cell phones to school, Gill whispered over the back of the seat.

      I’ll never even own one ’til I’m out of college or something, Sophie whispered back. Even her fourteen-year-old sister, Lacie, didn’t have one, and she was in high school.

      Sophie scooted closer to the bus window and gazed out through her glasses as Poquoson, Virginia, went by in a November mist. I’ll never even get a phone in my room, she thought. My conversations with my friends might as well be on the six o’clock news.

      Not to mention the whole rest of her life. In less than an hour, everybody in her section at school would know that her parents didn’t think she could handle a PG—13 movie.

      They’re way overprotective, Sophie thought. And then she squirmed a little. Back in October, when Mama and Daddy had come to the school to stand up for her, she had liked them being her guardian angels. But this was way different, she decided—and way confusing.

      She ran her hand over the top of her very-short-but-shiny light brown hair like she always did when she was confused, and she closed her eyes. Time to imagine Jesus. And of course, there he was, with his kind eyes,

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