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Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Julio, un joven de origen puertorriqueño y ecuatoriano que vive en el barrio de Spanish Harlem en Nueva York, sufre de extrañas visiones. Cuando decide creer a Taina, una chica de su escuela que está embarazada, pero que dice ser virgen, su amor ciego por ella desata un torbellino de emociones que llevarán a Julio a cuestionar a sus padres, su religión e incluso los principios básicos de la ciencia. Junto al tío de Taina, un ex convicto con...
3) Pregnant girl: a story of teen motherhood, college, and creating a better future for young families
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
"A teen mother's intimate, fearless account of America's damaging response to teen pregnancy, the systemic issues that exacerbate it, the insurmountable barriers to college for parenting students, and a blueprint for helping young families overcome the odds"--
4) 17 girls
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by events that took place in Massachusetts, Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut focuses on a group of bored teenage girls who all make an irrevocable pact. When Camille (Louise Grinberg, The Class) accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time before 17 girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos. Set...
Author
Language
English
Description
Drawn back to Baltimore where she is known as "Prom Mom"--the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her--Amber Glass is unable to stay away from Joe and vice versa, until he asks her to help him do the unthinkable.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2008, eighteen high school girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts were accused of making a pact to become pregnant. The mainstream media perpetuated and sensationalized the story, with reporters flying in from as far away as Australia, the UK, and Brazil. The Gloucester 18 looks behind all the headlines and hype to tell the real stories of these girls, and in the process puts a human face on a startling statistic: that the United States has the highest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California, 1938--When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's...
10) Pride over pity
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kailyn Lowry, the feisty, tattooed beauty whose determination to raise her son on her own terms has been documented on MTV's hit series Teen Mom 2, opens up in this raw memoir about her painful past and offers an inspiring account of a young girl's resolve to survive and succeed.
11) Unpregnant
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke discovers she is pregnant, she enlists the help of high school misfit Bailey Butler to drive her over nine hundred miles to the closest abortion clinic.
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program presents us with a realistic look at some of the issues facing today's teenager - pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and alcohol/substance abuse. Insights from recognised authorities in the field of adolescent development, and from teenagers themselves, give the viewer meaningful and constructive suggestions on how to meet these challenges.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Homefor the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family's culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner's family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
During adolescence, physical changes deeply affect an individual's self-concept. This impact is intensified when maturation is early or late. We discuss nutritional disorders, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, drug/alcohol use, and other related issues within the context of physical change.
18) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
When Jo becomes pregnant by a one-night stand with a black sailor, she moves in with her gay friend Geoffrey who helps her prepare for the baby, until Jo's overbearing mother reappears.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of the landscape. Magnetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all-the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she-the darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home-a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine soon realizes...
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