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Synopsis
Welcome Marie O'Neal is finally starting to enjoy her 15th year and can't wait to turn 16. She meets Nicholas Canton and, though her parents don't approve, the two start dating. Soon Welcome is head over heels in love and she can't believe it won't last forever. But the romance ends with the summer and when things fall apart, Welcome finds herself confused, heartbroken, and...in trouble. There aren't many people Welcome can turn to for help or advice in her small Southern town in 1955, especially not in her "perfect" family. The decisions Welcome has to make will change her life forever.
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Jerrie Oughton has written several novels for young adults. Her first, Music From a Place Called Half Moon. was awarded the Bank Street College Children's Book Award. She lives with her husband in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Grade 8-10-Welcome Marie O'Neal, 15, is the baby of her family, growing up in a sleepy North Carolina town in the 1950s. Her mother makes decisions based on what the neighbors will say; Welcome and her older sister can never live up to their father's expectations. Evelyn Sue dreams of a different world and is "in love" with James Dean, and the girls' older brother is busy with a family of his own. The protagonist gives her heart to the young man of her dreams, and, when she is rejected, seeks solace in her newly found sexuality with a friend. When Welcome tells her parents that she is pregnant, they send her away in shame to live with a childless aunt and uncle in Virginia. After a difficult birth and the realization that she cannot properly care for Adam with a part-time job and high school to finish, the teen decides to give him up to her aunt's more capable care and return to school. The last page presents an invitation, from Welcome to Adam and his family, to her graduation from medical school. The idea that if you have a baby at a young age outside of marriage, a willing relative may step in so that you can still follow your dreams is not a particularly constructive fairy tale. A marginal addition for large general collections, where it will be surrounded by some more realistic literature.
Kim Harris, Newman Riga Library, Churchville, NY
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Co
- ISBN 10 0395986699
- ISBN 13 9780395986691
- BindingHardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Good, solid ex-library copy but with all exterior library markings removed. The book has clean, unmarked text, but there is what appears to be some red lipstick staining in the margin of one of the pages. The dust jacket also has some staining at the top of the spine. There are a couple of wavy pages, but this doesn't affect the readability of the book. Seller Inventory # 025660
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