Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age Level: 14 and up
# of pages: 309
RAC Book: Yes
Sam is a fifteen year old boy who loves Tony Hawk and skateboarding, althought he calls it skating. He meets a girl named Alicia and they hit it off right away. She is pretty and funny and they find they cannot see enough of each other. Despite their reservations, they end up having sex fairly early into the relationship. Sam was apprehensive about beginning a sexual relationship because his parents were sixteen when they had him and he has always felt like he ruined their lives.
When Sam begins to drift away from Alicia she becomes desperate to talk to him. In a dream he flashes to the future where he is living in Alicia’s bedroom and they have a son. Even though he is not sure how he zapped into the future he believes it is true and Alicia is pregnant. He must decide how he can face her, his parents, and his very altered future.
Sam is a likable teenage boy who really did not want to get into this predicament, but did nonetheless. Since teenage pregnancy has been such an issue lately with celebrities like Jamie Lynn Spears and movies like Juno making it look cool, this book shows how hard it is to be a teenage parent. It also shows how plans of college, travel, and even leisure activities go away the minute a baby is in the picture. At the same time, the teens in this story have very supportive parents, which is not true of all cases. An interesting read.
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