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Teen Issues - Teen Pregnancy and Parenting
Annotation:When she is a sophomore in high school, Molly gets rid of her good-girl image but ends up becoming pregnant and having to make some difficult decisions. (234 p. Gr 9+)
Place a Hold
Annotation:When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone. (142 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:Honor student and future journalist Sophie, a seventeen-year-old senior, was pressured to break her purity pledge and fears she is pregnant but is unable to go to her parents, friends, pastor, or even God for help. (250 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:Zach and Ashley have been going out for a while and things are going well until Ashley finds out she is pregnant. Coming to terms with the reactions of their families and friends, Zach realizes that this is a decision that he and Ashley must make together. (128 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father. (172 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Seventeen-year-old Rand's unexpected pregnancy leads her on a path to unravel the mystery of her sister's death and face her own more hopeful future. (292 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die and, after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder. (350 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:Before she can decide what to do about her newly discovered pregnancy, sixteen-year-old Sydney is punished for "borrowing" a car and shipped out, along with best friend Natalia, to a wilderness camp for the next six weeks. (282 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:A realistic, heart-rending, timeless story of a teenage girl's traumatic experiences with an unintended pregnancy. (201 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:Julia Riley and her friend Ruth are stifled by their ultra-conservative Christian upbringing. Ruth has sex at a party and becomes pregnant at the same time as Julia's step-mother. The teen decides to learn everything she can from Miki's midwife, Maria, so that she can conceal her pregnancy. (197 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Sam's a 15-year-old avid skateboarder. His whole life changes when his girlfriend tells him that she's pregnant and he seeks advice from his hero Tony Hawk. (304 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy and all its conflicting emotions. (197 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:A wonderful book about a young man raising his daughter alone. This should be recommended for all teenagers to read. (131 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life. (312 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Sixteen-year-old Nick, still trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce, experiences exhilaration and despair in his relationship with his girlfriend Sasha, especially when, after instigating a trial separation, she announces that she is pregnant. (244 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time thing" between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life. (240 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:At 16, Star's life has changed drastically now that she's become the mother of a baby boy. Wilson, the baby's father, is reluctant to take responsibility and Star's grandmother is pressuring Star to give up the baby for adoption. (304 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Jane has always been the good Williams. Her brothers might be high school dropouts and late-night rowdy partiers, but never Jane. Now she's one of those: the teenage mothers packing diaper bags with their knapsacks, wheeling strollers into the high school daycare, tired and grumpy. (203 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:High school football player Stony is failing hi English class until he is assigned a student tutor who, despite helping him make some decisions about his future, possesses some potentially dangerous secrets from her past. (257 p. Gr 9+)
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