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1) Mama Ruby
Author
Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go.
2) Pretty baby
Author
Language
English
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Teen pregnancies and young motherhood is an issue that spans education, politics, health, family life and more. The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its members for events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.
Author
Publisher
MTV Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Ashley Salazar from MTV's 16 and pregnant, shares the day-to-day realities of being a pregnant teen, reveals the aftermath of her difficult decision, and recounts her struggle to put her life back together as she comes to terms with her new reality.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, but knows that is impossible. But once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They're schoolgirls - dreaming of the future, wanting to go out and have fun, trying to work out relationships with families, friends and boyfriends - and attempting to finish high school while raising their babies. Plumpton High, in Sydney's outer western suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia with a program that supports schoolgirl mothers completing their education, integrating them into the general student population. Over 100 girls have...
Author
Language
English
Description
Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom"-the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance-as long as she stays away from Joe,...
Author
Publisher
Generation Hope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Learn the days of the week with Sebastian and meet his extended family of neighbors! On Mondays, Sebastian reads poetry with Mr. and Mrs. Howe. On Tuesdays, he plays with parrots at the Iveys! While his mom is at school, Sebastian spends each day at a different home in his apartment building. What happens the rest of the week as he plays the days away? This rhyming book, written by student parents, celebrates the power of community coming together...
13) Never too late
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The former star of MTV's "Teen Mom" shares her experiences from the show, her resulting downward spiral into drug addiction that led her to prison, and how she found the strength to change her life.
15) Return to sender
Author
Language
English
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Description
At seventeen, Rosalind Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby's father and the man she naively hoped to marry, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Rosalind vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she's been denied.
16) Petropolis
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her father and struggling under the shadow of her overbearing mother, Jewish-Siberian teen Sasha has a baby with a homeless alcoholic and becomes a mail-order bride as part of her quest to find her father in America.
19) White Crocodile
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Tess Hardy thought she had put Luke, her violent ex-husband, firmly in her past. Then he calls from Cambodia, where he is working as a mine-clearer, and there's something in his voice she hasn't heard before: Fear. Two weeks later, he's dead. Against her better judgment, Tess is drawn to Cambodia and to the killing fields. Keeping her relationship to Luke a closely guarded secret, Tess joins his team of mine clearers, who are shaken to the core by...
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