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ISBN: 0689849222

EAN: 9780689849220

Category: Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American/Juvenile Fiction / Family / New Baby/Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Pregnancy/Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents/Juvenile Fiction / General/

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Release Date: 06/30/2003

Age Range: 12-UP

Synopsis: This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on me. And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own moms room and have her do the whole thing.Its not going to happen....Bobby is your classic urban teenaged boy -- impulsive, eager, restless. On his sixteenth birthday he gets some news from his girlfriend, Nia, that changes his life forever. Shes pregnant. Bobbys going to be a father. Suddenly things like school and house parties and hanging with friends no longer seem important as theyre replaced by visits to Nias obstetrician and a social worker who says that the only way for Nia and Bobby to lead a normal life is to put their baby up for adoption.With powerful language and keen insight, Johnson looks at the male side of teen pregnancy as she delves into one young mans struggle to figure out what the right thing is and then to do it. No matter what the cost.

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Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.67 inches

Width: 4.5 inches

Length: 7.5 inches

Weight: 6.53 oz

Pages: 144