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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
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...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A tumultuous love affair between Reena and Sawyer ends when Sawyer abruptly abandons their Florida town, causing Reena to bear their child alone and struggle with mistrust when Sawyer returns three years later.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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...
6) Impossible
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Lucy discovers that her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she also finds out that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to break the curse and save them both.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Teenage single mother Toi McKnight struggles to balance school, her job, and taking care of her young son, and she finds herself immersed in more drama when she falls in love with Harlem, a man who refuses to date teenage mothers.
8) Chill wind
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
9) Push
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
10) Make lemonade
Author
Series
Make lemonade trilogy volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
Author
Publisher
Sono Nis Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jane has always been the good Williams. Her brothers might be high school dropouts and late-night rowdy partiers, but never Jane. Now she's one of those: the teenage mothers packing diaper bags with their knapsacks, wheeling strollers into the high school daycare, tired and grumpy.
13) After the game
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
Two years after being raped, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama,...
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