Book
Sophie's World
- Published
- 1991
- Genre
- Religion
- Publisher
- Orion Pub. Group
- Pages
- 403
- Words
- 165091
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9AIwbzVEA7&rank=1
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.3
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780752818672
- ISBN-10
- 0752818678
Tags
FictionScience-Philosophy