Teen Pregnancy*
/ Baby GirlAdams, Lenora
Sheree, tough from growing up without a father, finds herself at a loss to help herself when she falls into the same trap as her mother.
/ ConceptionBuckhanon, Kalisha
Fifteen-year-old Shivana Montgomery, raised by a physically and verbally abusive single mother on the south side of Chicago, assumes her life will follow the same course as the other women she sees around her, but a visit from her beautiful and free-spirited Aunt Jewel, and a budding relationship with Rasul, lead her to hope for more, even after she accidentally becomes pregnant.
/ How to Love
Cotugno, Katie
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.
/ Someone Like You
Dessen, Sarah
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
/ After
Efaw, Amy
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.
/ Hook Up
Firmston, Kim
Cody Manywounds faces difficult emotions when his girlfriend decides to get an abortion.
/ Expecting
Freeman, Shannon
Three girls who couldn't be more different from each other meet at a program for pregnant teens when the town's high school isn't an option. The girls soon learn how to rely on each other through the drama.
*Note: This 99 page book may be too short for contemporary issues.
/ Every Little Thing in the World
Gramont, Nina de
Before she can decide what do about her newly discovered pregnancy, sixteen-year-old Sydney is punished for "borrowing" a car and shipped out, along with best friend Natalia, to a wilderness camp.
/ Ask Me How I Got Here
Heppermann, Christine
A novel in verse about a young woman and the aftermath of a life-altering decision.
/ In Trouble
Levine, Ellen
In 1950s New York, sixteen-year-old Jamie's life is unsettled since her father returned from serving time in prison for refusing to name people as Communists, when her best friend turns to Jamie for help with an unplanned pregnancy.
/ Holding on to Zoe
Lyon, George Ella
After sixteen-year-old Jules loses her boyfriend she experiences complications from the pregnancy that drove him away and suddenly, some of the people closest to her are behaving as if her baby is not real.
/ I Know it’s Over
Martin, C.K. Kelly
Sixteen-year-old Nick, still trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce, experiences exhilaration and despair in his relationship with his girlfriend Sasha especially when, after instigating a trial separation, she announces that she is pregnant.
/ Learning to Breathe
Mather, Janice Lynn
Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau.
/ Briana's Gift
McDaniel, Lurlene
When a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl is hospitalized and in a coma, her younger sister faces several difficult choices while dealing with loss, love, and life at Christmas time.
/ Pregnant Pause
Nolan, Han
Married, pregnant, and living at a "fat camp" in Maine, sixteen-year-old Eleanor has many questions about her future, especially whether the marriage will last and if she should keep the baby.
/ The Girl with a Baby
Olsen, Sylvia
Jane, one of the most popular girls and best students in her school, loses her good reputation when she has a baby at the age of fourteen, but as her Native American grandmother predicted, Jane learns that motherhood has only made her stronger.
/ How to Save a Life
Zarr, Sara
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
Other Topics: Adoption, Grief
*Plot summaries and images provided by Follett.