Saturday, July 12, 2008

2008 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers


Baby Girl by Lenora Adams. Books like this always get me thinking especially when they are about women dealing with real life experiences. Sheree has many problems as she is in a single parent home and where the parent is mostly absent and not someone very dependable. Sheree then has to deal with a problem that many young girls are now having to confront on their own: pregnancy. As the story unfolds in three different letters, one gets a sense of how her life started, her cry for help when she runsaway and how she now must deal with her own consequences.

Being a mother myself, makes books like this very hard to read a times because it's very hard to understand why young kids place themselves in very adult situations. In Sheree's situation, like for many, it's probably the lack of parental bonding and attention.

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