Teenage Pregnancy - Fiction
Mr. and Mrs.
Bo Jo Jones by Ann Head.
A pregnant
sixteen-year-old bride and her seventeen-year-old groom have serious problems
adjusting to their new life.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Her daughter's
eyes by Jessica Barksdale
Incl‡n.
Seventeen-year-old
Kate, feeling alone in the wake of her mother's death and her father's
preoccupation with his new girlfriend, prepares, with the help of her younger
sister, to give birth to her baby in secret.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level - 5.8
Dancing naked
: a novel by Shelley
Hrdlitschka.
Sixteen-year-old
Kia is forced to make some tough decisions when she becomes pregnant and
realizes her actions affect not only her but her parents, friends, and unborn
baby.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Detour for
Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
What kind of
love? : the diary of a pregnant teenager
by Sheila Cole.
When a
15-year-old girl with a promising future learns that she is pregnant, she faces
the most difficult decision of her young life.
Waiting for
June by Joyce Sweeney.
In the third
trimester of her pregnancy, Florida high school senior Sophie tries to discover
the identity of the father she has never known, while adamantly refusing to
disclose the name of her own baby's father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Where the
heart is by Billie Letts.
After being
abandoned at a Wall-Mart by her boyfriend, a pregnant teenage girl finds a new
life among the quirky inhabitants of a small town in Oklahoma.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.0
One night by Margaret Wild.
In this novel
written in free verse and narrated by alternating characters, a teenaged girl
decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night
stand" results in pregnancy.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
Too soon for
Jeff by Marilyn Reynolds.
High school
senior Jeff Browning is upset when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant
and determined not to let a baby ruin his plans to go to college on a debate
scholarship, but his feelings change after the baby is born.
Hanging on to
Max by Margaret Bechard.
When his
girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is
determined to keep him and raise him alone.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.3
The first part
last by Angela Johnson.
Bobby's carefree
teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his
adored baby daughter.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Teenage Pregnancy - Nonfiction
Dear diary,
I'm pregnant : teenagers talk about their pregnancy by Anrenee Englander
Presents the
voices of pregnant teens as they talk about their needs, interests, decisions
and choices around motherhood, adoption and abortion.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Annie's baby :
the diary of Anonymous, a pregnant teenager edited by
Beatrice Sparks.
A day-by-day
account of the life of an unnamed, pregnant, teenaged girl.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Teen moms :
the pain and the promise by
Evelyn Lerman Why have
sex so early? -- Feelings about men -- Meaning of motherhood -- Worries --
Welfare and independence -- Changed lives -- Their future.
Kerry, a
teenage mother by Maggi
Aitkens
A case study of a
teenage parent Kerry, who is one of more than a million teenage mothers in the
United States today. Shows what it is like to care for a child while you're
still in your teens.