Beth Johnson

This book is part of the Townsend Library, a collection of high-interest paperbacks published by Townsend Press to promote reading among today's students. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading.

Johanna, Rasheedah, and Rachel: each became an unmarried mother while she was still in her teens. With the birth of her baby, each girl's ordinary teen life was over.

Johanna s boyfriend acted happy when he heard she was pregnant. But as her pregnancy progressed, she saw less and less of him. Soon after the baby's birth, he went to jail. How would she support a baby without even a high school degree?

After Rasheedah's baby was born, all she could do was cry. She didn't know anything about babies. She didn't even dare touch this screaming, demanding stranger. Her depression grew as her dreams of college vanished into thin air.

Rachel wanted to be popular. Boys liked her. But she also wanted to save her reputation. When she discovered she was pregnant, she told a lie one that would haunt her until her daughter was born.

Johanna, Rasheedah, and Rachel are three of today's teen moms. They have offered to share their stories so that other young girls won't make the mistake of thinking, It couldn't happen to me. --From the Publisher