Iowa Teen Award
2007 · Young Adult · Nominee
About This Book
This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on me. And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own mom's room and have her do the whole thing.
It's not going to happen....
Bobby is your classic urban teenaged boy — impulsive, eager, restless. On his sixteenth birthday he gets some news from his girlfriend, Nia, that changes his life forever. She's pregnant. Bobby's going to be a father. Suddenly things like school and house parties and hanging with friends no longer seem important as they're replaced by visits to Nia's obstetrician and a social worker who says that the only way for Nia and Bobby to lead a normal life is to put their baby up for adoption.
With powerful language and keen insight, Johnson looks at the male side of teen pregnancy as she delves into one young man's struggle to figure out what the right thing is and then to do it. No matter what the cost.
It's not going to happen....
Bobby is your classic urban teenaged boy — impulsive, eager, restless. On his sixteenth birthday he gets some news from his girlfriend, Nia, that changes his life forever. She's pregnant. Bobby's going to be a father. Suddenly things like school and house parties and hanging with friends no longer seem important as they're replaced by visits to Nia's obstetrician and a social worker who says that the only way for Nia and Bobby to lead a normal life is to put their baby up for adoption.
With powerful language and keen insight, Johnson looks at the male side of teen pregnancy as she delves into one young man's struggle to figure out what the right thing is and then to do it. No matter what the cost.
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Book 2
Awards
Green Mountain Book Award
2006 · Grades 9-12 · Winner
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2005 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2005 · Ages 12 & Up · Nominee
Sequoyah Book Award
2005 · Young Adult · Nominee
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2005 · Young Adult · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2005 · Young Adult · Nominee
Coretta Scott King Award
2004 · Author · Winner
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
2004 · Young Adult · Winner
Tayshas Reading
2004 · Young Adult · Commended
Michael L. Printz Award
2004 · Young Adult · Winner
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