Detour for Emmy (True-To-Life Series from Hamilton High) (Hamilton High True-To-Life, #2)
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.
Don't you and your baby deserve the best? Then why by an outdated pregnancy book? My Pregnancy 2019 is the only annually updated pregnancy book you can buy, and the only one that will bring you bang up-to-date information on tests, food and drink guidelines and the latest research. Now in its 8th edition, My Pregnancy 2019 gives you all the latest advice and guidance at your fingertips, including: - Your baby's development week-by-week and stage-by-stage- What to eat, what to avoid, and the new...
Charlie is fifteen (and a half). She's in her last year at school. She just knows it's going to be a fantastic year. OK, her dad says she's growing up too fast, but what do dads know? Charlie can look after herself. She can. Until she gets pregnant after a party. That changes things. Her life is ruined - and her parents will be furious. Should she keep the baby? Republished as a new edition, this book is one of the Shades 2.0 series. This book is perfect for reluctant teens who still want an ex...
"Nikki and Jack take on the underworld to free themselves of the Everneath's power"--
'A delicious, evocative story' THE GUARDIAN From the author of THE POET X comes a sumptuous prose novel, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas' On the Come Up, Justin Reynolds' Opposite of Always and Nicola Yoon Ever since she got pregnant, seventeen-year-old Emoni's life has been about making the tough decisions - doing what has to be done for her young daughter and her grandmother. Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with new boy Malachi. The one place she can let every...
What do you do when you’ve fallen for your best friend? Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no...
When Taco's longtime crush, Maggie, not only goes to junior prom with him but ends up pregnant Taco sees it as a fresh start, but her parents have other plans.
Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying overhead. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to - another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to abou...
Chelsea feels more comfortable riding her wakeboard than flirting with boys until Sebastian, a hot tennis prodigy, shows an interest in her. The only problem is that she'd rather have Todd, a cute watersports instructor and one of her chief competitors in this summer's Northwest Extreme Watersports Competition.
Fifteen-year old Mia lives with her dad in a small rural community. When she discovers that she's pregnant she doesn't know where to turn - her elder sisters have left home, her mum left when Mia was six, her boyfriend, Will, is too scared to be anyhelp and her dad tries to push her into an abortion. Backed into a corner, she runs away and joins two women on a canal boat. Nobody can find her now but she discovers that the women have their own tragic stories. A fire on the boat makes her realise...
When preacher's daughter Ruth gets pregnant after a wild party, her best friend Julia, determined to support her friend, comes up with a plan that may crumble under unexpected complications from her family and Ruth's brother Jonah.
From the best-selling author, Sara Zarr, comes the remarkable story of what it means to be a family, and the many roads we can take to become one. Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she's been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends - everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she's trying to replace a lost family member with a new one. Mandy Kalinowski understands what it's l...
A cross-country motorcycle trip to scatter her mother's ashes turns into a journey of self-discovery as Harley navigates a romance with unexpected consequences.
Anholt Family Favourites: Sophie and the New Baby (Anholt Family Favourites) (Picture Books)
by Laurence Anholt
One day, Sophie's mum tells her some big, important news: there's going to be a new baby in the family! Sophie is very excited but then, one winter's night, the baby is born and everything changes... Young children and adults alike will enjoy sharing and talking about this much-loved classic picture book, with its perceptive, heart-warming and witty observations on the arrival of a new baby. From the husband and wife team behind Babies, Babies, Babies, featured in the Sunday Times as one of th...
Ribbons of the Sun (Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print))
by Harriet Hamilton
Scarlet considers herself someone who fixes other people's problems...until she becomes one when she falls in love with her sister's husband in this beautiful young adult novel about love and family from National Book Award finalist and Printz Honor medal winner Deb Caletti. Scarlet spends most of her time worrying about other people. Some are her friends, others are practically strangers, and then there are the ones no else even notices. Trying to fix their lives comes naturally to her. And pu...
Lucy has her life planned out: she'll graduate and then join her boyfriend, Luke, at college in Austin. She'll become a Spanish teacher, and they'll get married. Deciding there's no reason to wait, and despite trying to be careful, Lucy gets pregnant. Now, none of Lucy's options are part of her picture-perfect plan. Together, she and Luke will have to make the most difficult decision of their lives.
This Full House (Make Lemonade Trilogy (Hardcover), #3) (Make Lemonade Trilogy (Paperback))
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
High-school-senior LaVaughn's perceptions and expectations of her life begin to change as she learns about the many unexpected connections between the people she loves best.