Bechard writes with humor and empathy, weaving the story of 17-year-old Sam in a very real look at the lives of teen fathers today. "A breath of fresh air . . . a poignant winner of a book."--"School Library Journal," starred review. ...

This new installment in the Roosevelt High School series focuses on teen pregnancy Celia is a beautiful young girl on the brink of her sophomore year of high school. She watches her weekly soap opera Teen Angel and dreams about cute boys. One day, when Celia goes to visit her best friend Cassie, she meets Nicky, an exciting older boy with a tattoo of a snake on his arm. Finally, it seems that all the things that she's been dreaming of are coming ...

When Ellie was a little girl, she had a doll named Daisy. She loved to dress her and give her a bottle. Now Ellie is fifteen, and she has a real baby to love. But a baby is not a doll. Taking care of Angelica isn"t anything like taking care of Daisy. In fact, it"s harder than Ellie ever could have imagined. In Doll Baby, Eve Bunting warmly but honestly portrays the truth about teenage pregnancy and motherhood, addressing all the joy and anguish, ...

From the editor of "Go Ask Alice" comes this gripping narrative about a pregnant teenager who chronicles her experience in her diary, revealing her deepest feelings. ...

Through candid interviews, ten teenage girls talk openly about their pregnancies and how their lives were affected by it. They also discuss the difficult decisions they faced upon discovering they were pregnant. ...

Emmy, whose future had once looked so bright, struggles to overcome the isolation and depression brought about by being a teen mother who gets little support from her family or the father of her child. ...

Discusses the feelings and circumstances of and possible options for teenagers who become pregnant and describes the experiences of young women who kept their babies, who had abortions, and who gave their babies up for adoption. ...

Janet Bode returns to the personal accounts of female and male teens telling their peers about their own experiences, in a completely revised and updated edition of Kids Still Having Kids. In addition to the original interviews, Bode updates the reader on what has happened to those people she interviewed, appends a comprehensive list of related reading, and intersperses the interviews with excerpts from the current press. Always compelling and ...

Virginia Euwer Wolff writes about tenacious people. In Make Lemonade she tells the story of Jolly--17-years-old, barely literate, with two kids from two different, absent fathers--and how she begins the slow process of building a future for herself. This is another startling novel by an extraordinary writer. ...

After discovering that his cat is not a male cat, Grampa eagerly awaits the birth of her kittens. ...