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Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood: Fiction and Nonfiction
What would you do if you, your girlfriend or your friend was pregnant? These fiction and nonfiction books explore some tough choices teens can make.
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Fiction
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Bechard, Margaret
Hanging On To Max
When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.
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Caseley, Judith
Losing Louisa
Sixteen-year-old Lacey worries about the effect of her parents' divorce on her family, especially her mother,
and about her older sister's sexual activity, which may have made her pregnant.
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Dessen, Sarah
Someone Like You
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery
that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
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Fienberg, Anna
Borrowed Light
A sixteen-year-old feels alienated from her family while struggling with the difficult decisions surrounding
her unplanned pregnancy.
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Horniman, Joanne
Mahalia
When his girlfriend leaves him and their five-month-old baby, Matt struggles to make a life for himself and
Mahalia, the daughter he adores.
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Hart, Karen
Butterflies in May
When Ali Parker, on the verge of college, finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy, she faces some difficult
decisions about her life, her future, and that of her unborn child.
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Hobbs, Valerie
Get It While It's Hot -- or Not
When she learns that her friend is pregnant, Megan begins to question some of the promises she has made to
others and to herself.
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Johnsons, Angela
The First Part Last
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father.
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McDonald, Janet
Chill Wind
Afraid that she will have nowhere to go when her welfare checks are stopped, Aisha tries to figure out how
she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
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Oughton, Jerrie
Perfect Family
Welcome, a fifteen-year-old girl living in a small town in North Carolina during the 1950s finds out that she
is pregnant and has some difficult decisions to make.
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Porter, Connie Rose
Imani All Mine
In her ghettoized world where poverty, racism and danger are daily struggles, a fourteen-year-old mother named
Tasha uses her savvy and humor to uncover the good hidden around her.
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Wild, Margaret
One Night
In this novel written in free verse, a teenaged girl decides to have her baby and care for it on her own
after a "one night stand" results in a pregnancy.
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Williams, Lori Aurelia
Broken China
China Cup Cameron, a fourteen-year-old single mother with only her paralyzed Uncle Simon for support, struggles
to pay for a beautiful funeral after her daughter dies.
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Williams-Garcia, Rita
Like Sisters on the Homefront
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart fourteen-year-old and her
baby down to Georgia to live with Uncle Luther and his family.
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Woodson, Jacqueline
The Dear One
Feni has her mother to herself for a long time. So when her mother takes in the pregnant daughter of an old
friend, Feni is furious!
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Nonfiction
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Angelou, Maya
Gather Together in my Name
Marguerite must support herself and her son by working any job she can find.
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Arnoldi, Katherine
The Amazing True Story of a Single Mom
An inspirational and poignant pictorial memoir that chronicles a teenage mother's sentimental education, as told
through cartoons and searing text.
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Coles, Robert
The Youngest Parents: Teenage Pregnancy as it Shapes Lives
The author asks readers to listen to the compelling voices of young women and men who are soon to become
parents although barely out of childhood themselves.
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Davis, Deborah
You Look Too Young to Be a Mom
Firsthand accounts and words of wisdom from dozens of young women who defied the negative stereotypes about
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Gottfried, Ted
Teen Fathers Today
Current information about teen fatherhood, including myths vs. reality, attitudes, responsibility, finances,
family problems, when parents split, and where to get help.
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Haskins-Bookser, Laura
Dreams to Reality: Help for Young Moms
Without judgment, this book lays out helpful guidelines and possible pitfalls that face a young, single woman
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Lindsay, Jeanne Warren
Teen Dads: Rights, Responsibilities, and Joys
Written specifically for young fathers, this books focuses on the importance of accepting and handling the responsibilities that
one has to a child.
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Lipper, Joanna
Growing Up Fast
This books tells the life stories of Amy, Liz, Colleen, Shayla, Sheri, and Jessica -- sex teen mother whom
the author first met in 1999 when they were all enrolled in a Teen Parent Program.
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List updated by Connie, May 2007.
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