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Realli Good
This book was great! I gave it 4 starz cuz i wished it was longer.

Wonderful book
I simply loved this book because of its wonderful writing and tender handling of a delicate subject. The story tells a tale of a young man raising a child and tells the story in a loving way. I really enjoyed reading the story and the way it was told. Johnson really seems to empathize with "children having children" and gives the reader a positive role model as a young boy learns what it is to be a father. She writes beautifully as she tells the tale and the tale is a very good one. I highly recommend this book to middle school children.

SOUTHWOOD BOOKCLUB
I really like this book and we will be discussing it in our Bookclub in Sept. Thank You Ms. Johnson ... Read more

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A choice that would change your life forever? Read on....
Someone Like You
Dessen at her best
This is by far my favorite 'best friends' book, along with Summer Sisters. I loved how open and honest Halley and Scarlett were with eachother, and that they loved each other unconditionally and non-judgmentally.It's a kind of friendship I didn't even know could exist until I was well into my late teens.Fantastic book for young adults, not just because it's fantastically written and interesting, but because it shows you what real friendship should and can be.

Makes you value friendship!
Scarlett and Halley have been best friends since the day Scarlett moved in across the street.Though they seem to be drifting apart somewhat through the summer, one rare moment brings them closer together than ever.
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Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Fiction    4. Friendship    5. Girls & Women    6. Juvenile Fiction    7. Pregnancy    8. Social Issues - Friendship    9. Social Issues - Pregnancy    10. Unmarried mothers    11. Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women   

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Straight talk about pregnancy
The Unplanned Pregnancy Book for Teens and College Students is an excellent resource for young parents-to-be.Williams-Wheeler has compiled a step-by-step guide so an individual can formulate a course of action and gain insight into their purpose in life.The chapters are detailed and offer a non-judgmental description of all the options available.Particular attention is given to determining if you are actually pregnant, how to have conversations with parents and boyfriend/child's father, what to expect during the pregnancy, parental assistance programs, what will the baby need, the 411 on abortion, adoption, future contraception, and an extensive resource section with addresses, telephone numbers and internet addresses.
A Great Resource
You suspect you're pregnant: you're young, in high school, college or the workforce.What is your next step, what does the future hold for you?
Educate Yourself.Make a Plan.Take Action.
What am I going to do?What is my family going to think?What will my boyfriend think?What will he do?
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Subjects:  1. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    2. Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Situations / Pregnancy    3. Pregnancy & Childbirth    4. Abortion    5. Adoption    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Pregnancy    8. Pregnancy, Unwanted    9. Social Situations    10. Teenage mothers    11. Teenage parents    12. Teenage pregnancy    13. Women college students   

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verry touching
I myself am the same age as annie (in the diary), so just reading about the things that she goes through and how fast she is forced to grow up, really shows me how careful we must be and we cant just go through life thinking "it wont happen to me".
janesha
I think that annie is going to be a good mom I hope she take care of her baby. And always love her mother because she was their the whole way. And dont think about danny cause all he wanted from you was sex.

Good Book
I thought this was a pretty good book.It was very depressing to read, but honestly, the girl is stupid.The story was drawn out and the ending sucked!It left me hanging, I just didn't get what she decided to do. ... Read more

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Detour for Emmy by Kally Vorbeck
First of all Emmy is a freshman in high school. She lives with her brother and her mother. Her brother is a drug attic who is always in rehad, well most the time. Emmy's mother is always out drinking. Shes only normal half the time. Well while Emmy is in school she meets a guy named Art. She finds out that he likes her too so they start dating. Emmy is constantly sneaks Art in and out of her house while her mother is out drinking. Art is a straight A student and has big plans to go to standford college. Also, Emmy had big plans of attending standford for her college education. Emmy and Art start partying with eachother and become closer and closer everyday. One night Emmy has sex with Art and don't really want to, but she does. Art always tells her that if she loved him she would do it. Art always trys pressuring her to have sex, so one night they have sex on a beach. Emmy forgets to use protection. After awhile, Emmy starts to feel sick and is throwing up often. So Emmy goes to the nurse at school. The nurses gives her a checkup and Emmy finds put that she is pregnant. Emmy is scared, confused, and dont know how to tell Art. So during choir, she trys to explain to him the problem. Art doesnt beileve her until she srarts crying and passes out. Emmy and Arts relationship starts falling apart from there. When Emmy told her mother, she was furiated. She was sure her mother wasnt going to help her, and what she thought was right. Emmy was alone and by herslef for the nine months of her pregnancy. Her mother wouldn't help her and would barely talk to her. When Emmy has the baby her and Art get back together. Emmy and Art took the baby over to Arts house. At first when Emmy and Art told his parents, they didnt beileve them. His father and mother thought that it was just a child Emmy was babysitting for. The baby has the same birthmark as Art and its in the same place. Now they know that its Arts baby for sure. A little later in time, Art and Emmy breakup and Art goes off to Standford like he planned. Before he leaves he visits Emmy and the baby (Rosie). Now Emmy is living at home with her mother, cant go off to standford and live the life she wanted.

mystian detour for emmy
be tide down to a child.Once young Emmy starts to show her pregnant belly the school makes her go to a school that deals with things like pregnant teens.What's unfair about this is she has to leave while art gets to run around care free Emmy has to quit chorus which she loves to do.She even has to give up the one thing she loves the most which is soccer.But the worst is yet to come.The night that Emmy does get to go out after she has her baby Rose her date turns out to be a total jerk.He tries to rape Emmy, but what hurts the most is that he labels her a [...].I feel this way because he tells her before he force him self on he "it's not like you a virgin".To me this mean that if a girl has sex with one guy that it gives a sign to other guys that she'll have sex with any one. To me this book is stereotyping all teen mothers.But what about the fathers?I would recommend that all young girls who are being pressured into having sex to read this book.This book is the ultimate birth control.
My Review
Now in this situation, if you read this story, you would be very shocked. ok it starts out wit emmy, she is a freshman at high school, who lives with her mom, who is drunk half the time,and her brother, who is a drug attic, and is in rehab most of the time. ok and dont you think she has many problems of her own. then she meets Art Rodriguez. who is a straight A student( as well as Emmy) and he has major plans in going to Standford College when he graduates. ok so he meets emmy and like he starts to like her, and emmy feels the same for art. then she has sex one time in her brothers bedroom, and she didnt no how to put the condom on the right way? lol. and when she had sex, she started bleeding, then she did it again at the beach but this time, she didnt use any protection, thinking you know, she believe art n what he says that " he pulled out in time" that right there is such a lie? but anyway.... emmy finds out she's pregant then art doesnt belive her until she passes out at choir class. and then the nurse tells her she might be pregnant. so right there emmy and art's relationship go down hill from there. then Mr. Rodriguez(art's dad) sees art's baby for the first time,and thinks that emmy is babysitting for someone else, then she tells him that its his grndchild, art's baby, her baby. then afterward art's family are happy and upset,just because emmy had a baby that was art's, art's mom doesnt believe that Rosie is art's baby, her birthmark looks exatly like art's and its in the same place, she thinks she got her baby tattooed? now that right there is ridiculous, who in the world would get there baby's birth mark tattoed? but then Emmy and Art break-up,and he gets ready for Standford, but before he goes, he stops by Emmy's every night before he leaves for college. and visits them two. and then they finally break up and then Emmy finally finds someone else.. in the end. so hopefully that they will bring out another story in that one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    3. Fiction    4. Juvenile Fiction    5. Pregnancy    6. Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings    7. Social Issues - Pregnancy    8. Social Situations - Pregnancy    9. Teenage mothers    10. Unmarried mothers    11. Teenage romance   

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Read this for the first time..........
Although, this is my first time reading this book...I felt very close to this book. I could easily relate to the characters. I was a teen mommy and everything seemed to fit with what I went through. Even though the time periods were much different, my parents behaved in much of the same way as July's did. This is a wonderful book that really brings to home what it means to experience a life changing event such as they did. Glad I got the chance to read it!

Still rings true.
I read this book more than 30 years ago, and I loved it.When I found it was back in print, I bought it, read it again, and still loved it.My parents went out of their way to explain the lessons taught in this book, and I listened.Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't listen, so perhaps a book like this will help. Teen pregnancy is a serious topic, even though it is far more prevalent now than it was in the 1960s, and it is still often dangerous for both the mother and (as we see here) the baby.Kudos to Ms. Head for writing a book on a touchy subject with compassion and empathy.

Liked it as much as I did thirty years ago LOL
Wow, I cannot believe that it has been thirty two years since I read this book. At first when I read it I thought wow, this is so cool. What fun it might be to be a mommy at such a young age. The more I read the book though the less fun it seemed like, especially when a girlfriend of mine got pregnant at 16 and had to deal with crying, diapers, midnight feedings yuk..... I am so glad I waited. Well thrity years, five daughters and two grand daughters later I am still glad I waited and I think this book had a little something to do with it, as it was not romanticized (did I spell that right? LOL)in this book. I just ordered it again in paperback as the one I had has fallen apart and my two younger daughters are just the right age to read this book.It must be good, it is still around. ... Read more

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A must do for parents and kids
Passport 2 Purity is a must for all parents.It gave my son and I some common ground to talk and understand where we are each coming from. ... Read more

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GREAT BOOK
this is a great book i dont read much because of time but this book i like and recomend to parents of teens and teens themselves.

a little too much
I'll be frank: this book is graphic.Parts of it are R-rated.I'm not joking.It goes into more detail than an issue of Seventeen or YM or CosmoGirl! Or even Teen People.It is one peg above "Deal With It!" from Gurl.com.It is a very frank, very honest book.What separates it from the rest is that it comes from the Christian perspective.It talks about God, and what God thinks of premarital sex. The author is not preachy, instead he says that the decision is yours.Its up to you, he says, to make the decision not to have sex and to remain pure. He does warn about some of the possible consequences.But this book also talks about masturbation, oral sex (details here), homosexuality, STD's, condoms (including misuse of condoms), the rhythm method and popular tactics used to avoid going "all the way."While abstinence is preached, I found that this book went just a little too far.I have a gut feeling that my parents (who were fairly liberal when it came to raising me and my brother, i.e., listen to whatever music you want, no curfew) would not have let me and my brother read this book when we were sixteen.Why?Because there is a little too much here.I recommend the books Dateable and The Dateable Rules instead-they are both written by the same author (with Hayley Morgan DiMarco) they are a little less detailed and get the same point across as this book does. ... Read more

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Bought this book for my 3yo daughter
who is expecting a new sibling.Although not her favourite baby book, she does seem to enjoy the rhymes and beautiful bright pictures in this one.My husband found the line about the door to the tummy house being 'rather tight' somewhat amusing as well! ... Read more

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All parents should read this book
This was an extremely informative and enlightening book. I bought a copy formy teenage daughter, my teenage son as well as my niece. This book dispells all myths about pregnancy and offers very valuable guidelines on what to do if you find yourself pregnant.
Pretty good...
If you're a teenager who wants to get pregnant, want to learn more about teens who get pregnant(my reasoning), or have already gotten pregnant, you should read this book. This book really helped me!
A year ago, I found out I was pregnant.I was scared stiff.I was only 15 and I didn't have any time or patience to be a mother.I didn't believe in abortion, my parents didn't want me to give it up, and I didn't want tokeep it.I was very confused and I felt like I was alone.Then I readthis book.It really made a difference in my life!I read what othergirls did about their pregnancies and how they felt about their choices. Thanks to this amazing book, I decided to give birth to a beautiful babygirl, and now I know that my daughter Carisse is living with a very nicecouple.She's the baby they always wanted, and none of this would'vehappened if I had never read "Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant-Teenagers TalkAbout Their Pregnancies".Thanks to a great book! ... Read more

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More Lemonade
I really wanted to give this book five stars but I feel that the ending was rushed. Ms. Wolff did a wonderful job with introducing the characters and building them up over time, however I feel cheated of not being able to see more of Jolly's transition towards change in the end.

Real for Teens
As a high school teacher I am always looking for a book that will speak to the heart and soul of the teen years. This is one such book. Written in the persona of a 14 year old girl, the book has pathos, humor and hope. The characters are believable, lovable and their mistakes are understandable. The minute my students opened the book, boys and girls, they were caught. So was I! There is so much to this unusually written book, that I am only sorry I started it so near the end of the school year.
! HELP !
Are you the type of person that is planning on going to college, but doesn't have the money to do it? Well this is the right book to read. This book may be written in poems but it doesn't mean it rhymes and it's boring. This book talks about a young teenage girl named Lavaughn.
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Gingerbread
Overall, I'd say this was fun to read. Cyd may seem sarcastic and snobby but the way she talks makes everyone know she's really a good person. She's just got the rebel thing going on, since she doesn't like her parents much and she's always fantacizing about how things could be different and what could happen when she gets older.
READ ME!!!!!!! I AM #1!!!!!!
"Girl, you look like trouble." That girl is Cyd Charisse, the protagonist of Rachel Cohn's book Gingerbread, the first novel of a two-book series. Sid is also the name of her stepfather. Cyd's biological father, or as she calls him "Frank-real-dad," lives in New York with his two children. Cyd hardly remembers him now: she's only met him once when she was five, at the Dallas Fort-Worth airport. Frank bought her a dolly at the airport and Cyd named her Gingerbread. Now she is faced with many problems and her boyfriend, her friend Sugar Pie, and Gingerbread are all she's got.
fun bad-girl-repentance story
Cyd Charisse (named after the famous dancer and actress) has just gotten kicked out of boarding school, and is having trouble settling back in with her uptight family, and her boyfriend, Shrimp, suddenly wants his space.So her parents agree to send her across the country to New York City to visit with "Frank real-dad," who she's only seen once, and who gave her her beloved ragdoll christened "Gingerbread."This heartwarming story tells about true family values, no matter how spread out your family is. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    3. Family - Parents    4. Family - Stepfamilies    5. Fiction    6. Interpersonal relations    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Mothers and daughters    9. Social Issues - Adolescence    10. Social Issues - Pregnancy    11. Stepfamilies    12. Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Adolescence   

Editorial Review

Between the midnight feedings and the diaper issue, it's never easybeing a new parent. But when you're also a high-school student trying tograduate, the job becomes even more overwhelming. Sam Pettigrew never dreamedhe'd spend his senior year pushing a stroller. But when his former girlfriend,Brittany, decided that she couldn't handle being a parent, Sam knew he had totry. Now attending an alternative high school that provides daycare, Samdesperately juggles homework and parenting duties. "The list above my desk said,'Get Max to sleep by 9:00.' Right under 'Drink out of a cup' and 'nap schedule.'I couldn't even remember what 'nap schedule' meant. " Sam's biggest problem ishis lack of support: Brittany has left town to start over, and Sam's widowedfather, angry over Sam's decision, refuses to help Sam other than financially.Claire Bailey, another teen parent, only serves to show Sam how alone he is--herfamily loves to babysit and buy toys for her baby, Emily. Finally, after adisastrous night spent in the emergency room when Max cuts his hand, Sam becomesdefeated. How much longer can he keep up this crazy schedule of school andfatherhood? Yet, how can he bear not to keep it up, when giving it up meansgiving up Max?Read more

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Hanging on to Max Review
"Hanging on to Max" is a novel about a teenage single parent who has a young son.Sam is 17 years old and his son in Max.Sam has a hard life he is trying to juggle a million different schedules he has to go to school, do his homework, take care of Max, and hang out with friends.Sam finds out that its hard to take care of his son and try to do things that normal high school students do.Sam feels it is too hard to take care of Max so Sam decides to give Max up for adoption in the end.Sam gives Max up for adoption because he doesn't want Max to make the same mistakes he did and he wants Max to have a better life than he did.That is a quick summary on the novel "Hanging on to Max."
Hanging on to Max
The book Hanging On To Max is a great book by Margret Bechard. The book is about a teenage boy named sam who is trying to raise a baby boy named Max.max's mother , Brittany, put him up for adoption and sam could not bare to let him go, so sam took the resposiblity to take Max and raise him all alone. At only the age of seven-teen, sam is still attending school and taking care of rasing Max. max and sam go through so much together because Max comes first. He is sam's biggest priority. Having a baby is tuff enough, but going to school and still living a teenage like is much harder. In the story sam meets his high school crush again. Her name is Claire Bailey. She also has a new baby as a teenager and her boyfriend is no longer around to help. Claire and sam are stuck in the same boat, both alone with little kids. They then being doing things together. As a whole they have fun, them and the kids. They go through many obsticals leading up to sam deciding that he must give Max up for adoption. Sam is a young kid who was not ready for the resposibilty of a new son. He had fun with him and Max together, but he does the better for him so he doesn't make the same mistakes he did.

Hanging On To Max
The book Hanging On To Max is a very good book but in ways kind of hard to understand due to the way the author wrote it. I liked it a lot though due the fact the i can relate to it my friends are young teenagers and are having kid its sad but its the real world. ... Read more

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Merrybegor or Witch?
Grace is a Puritan minister's daughter in 1645 England.She's the golden child of the village, delicate and pure, refined and elegant.Nell, the healer's daughter, is her polar opposite.She's a Merrybegot, a child conceived on May Morning.She is wild and unrestrained, a healer and midwife.When Grace and her sister, Patience, are suddenly taken by a violent illness, Nell is accused of witchcraft.In this powerful good-versus-evil story set during the English Civil War, both Grace and Nell's lives are followed, alternating with Patience's confession during the Salem Witch Trials, fifty years later.From the reason behind Grace's supposed illness to Nell's unexpected new friend, this book is a touching and realistic story about two young girls, who, though they lived 350 years ago, really aren't so different than girls today.The story is excellently spun, and even those who don't read much historical fiction can enjoy this sincere and alluring novel.

A perfect read for YA or adults!
I didn't have any idea that The Minister's Daughter was a YA novel, either, until coming here to write a review.I just finished it an adored it.Not only does it treat both Pagan and Christian beliefs with respect and impartiality, but it's just a great story.The characters are vivid and compelling, the story is suspenseful, and the writing itself is highly skilled.I read an awful lot of books, and this one will have a permanent place on my shelf where others may be passed on to friends or sold.The Minister's Daughter isn't going anywhere - I'll want to re-read it many times!

The Ministers Daughter
This incredible and mystical story, The Ministers Daughter, takes place in a land full of adventure,excitement and danger lurking behind every rock.
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Birth Defects Customer Review
When a Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level test was conducted the books reading level is between eight and twelth grade level. Physicians and especially Pediatricians can benefit from this book because there is very factual information that one may need to know about birth defects. There are many topics in the book that give the background on birth defects and children with birth defects. It also lists and explains the causes of birth defects and also how it can be prevented. In this book it also explains what birth defects are and what is considered a birth defect. In the back matter of the book there is also a question and answer page that could be more helpful to the common reader. Also in the back matter the book gives some Further reading for a more in depth look at birth defects. ... Read more

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Could be more realistic
While the overall content of teen sex and pregnancy was realistic, I had to laugh at poor Julie's hospital experiences.I was hoping with the newest addition, it might be more believable. Having worked in a hosptial OB unit since 1989, I have yet to give a laboring mom an enema, nor do we use cold sterile delivery rooms.( I could see where this might have been believable in the early eighties edition of the book, but it should have been deleted in the 1995 edition and most definitely the most recent one). I think the author could have kept in mind that most people (especially teens) have watched one of the many true birth stories on TV and could be given better info than the delivery in the book. If it was made to scare teens into abstinance, it would be better to have it more believable than to try to scare them with a humiliating hospital experience.Most OB's are women these days, and almost everyone gets an epidural well before they are too uncomfortable!

Good Book
This is a book that I think every girl should read. It is pretty grown up, so I dont think a girl should read it if under the age of 15. I am 17 and had to ask my mom questions. This is an awsome story to give anyonewho is not worried about getting pregant. I love that they said that God adoptes us into his family. The ending was wonderful and made me cry. I think this book tells girls with no mom or other adult everything they need to know. Read it!!

WARNING--Review Cotains Spoilers !
If a book is published by a Christian publishing house and is for teens, I will most likely read it. I'm not too picky.
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The Dear One is a moving, powerful book -- a must read!
Feni, a 12-year-old, does not want her mother to let Rebecca, a 15-year-old pregnant girl from Harlem, stay with them. But her mother insists this is something she must do, for her old school friend (Rebecca'smother). Read more

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I Love Kiim
I like Kim more and more in each book.She's had way too much to deal with and this book is a great reminder that our minds and bodies will only take so much stress before they start to shut down.I bought this book for my neice and I previewed it (as always).Kim is a great role model for the teenage girl.

Not the best, but still good
This is the 3rd in Melody Carlson's "Kim" Diary of a Teenage Girl series. I must say that I'm a little bit dissapointed with how this book turned out. I found myself skipping through the pages a bit to get to the good parts. Basically, what happens, is that Kim's BFF, Nat, finds out she's pregnant...with Benjamin O'Conner's baby! Kim helps her through everything, and goes to the store and helps her get a pregnancy test and everything. Natalie's personality turns horrid as the weeks go by, and Kim is dissapointed in her desicion to get an abortion. Between her best friend, and all of the stress going on in her life, Kim isn't sure what to do. To relieve from all of the stress, she goes on vacation to visit her Grandma (this is where it got boring). It has a surprise ending, that made me happier with the book. I'd still read it, but it's not the best. Read the first 2 books and you won't be dissapointed! I'm sure that the next book will be much better. Can't wait! ... Read more

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