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When Megan, Kit, Mia, and Elaine made their promise to be friends forever, they were just kids, and life was much less complicated. Now theyre juniors in high school, and one of them is in big trouble.
Kit is pregnant, with dangerous complications, and desperately needs her friends help. Her home life is a mess, with her father long gone and her mother seldom on the scene. Kits one-time boyfriend is history, and he doesnt know about the baby. Megan, Mia and Elaine are determined to come to her rescue, working out a schedule to be with her each day. For Megan, helping Kit means lying and breaking promises, and she begins to ask questions about the pact, about friendship, and about love and sex! But when she writes down some of her own answers, and plans to print them in school paper, it leads to an explosive confrontation with consequences Megan never expected.
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From School Library Journal:
Grade 7-10?When dependent, needy Kit announces her pregnancy and toxemia to her three best friends, the high-school juniors work out a rotation plan of caring for her since her mother is rarely home. The story is narrated by Megan, whose stable family life provides counterpoint, and whose journalistic instincts are piqued by Kit's plight to explore attitudes about birth control, abortion, teen pregnancy, parenting, and STDs for the school newspaper. Megan has to hide her caregiving efforts from her mother, who has restricted her association with Kit. A pair of wealthy yuppies appear out of nowhere to offer material comforts in exchange for the baby until the teen father is diagnosed as HIV-positive. School authorities squelch Megan's article. Kit's emergency delivery catalyzes everyone into action, including the girl's mother, who plans to sell her bar and open a baby clothing store. Underdeveloped characters, overabundance of issues, and improbability of events swamp the story line. Kit's selfish lethargy leaves one wondering why her friends bother with her. The novel's primary agenda is to explore attitudes and consequences of teenage sexuality, but censorship and first-amendment rights are also addressed. In Marilyn Reynold's Detour for Emmy (Morning Glory, 1993) or Berlie Doherty's Dear Nobody (Orchard, 1992), issues are humanized through strong writing and passionate, believable characters. Hobbs's book is formulaic, predictable, and lacking in genuine emotion.?Alice Casey Smith, Sayreville War Memorial High School, NJ
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Hobbs (How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadn't Called You Back?, 1995) takes on a sheaf of hot topics in this soapy, overstuffed tale of three friends helping a fourth who has a penchant for making bad choices. When Kit announces that she's four months pregnant and has to stay in bed, Megan, Mia, and Elaine rally around. For the privilege of waiting on her passive, fretful friend, Megan cuts class, sneaks out at night, and lies to her parents, while also fending off the physical advances of her boyfriend, fixing up Mia with her older brother, writing an inflammatory article (much of it quoted) for the school newspaper on safe and unsafe sex, engaging in a one-sided debate on the availability of condoms at school, and learning that the baby's football-hero father is HIV- positive. Amid much soul-searching, Megan becomes celebrated for defiantly distributing copies of her article after it is axed, and gets Kit to the hospital when she collapses. The baby is delivered, but between her manipulative mother and boozy grandmother, her future looks bleak. Having given the father what he deserves, Hobbs parks him on the sidelines and gives Kit short shrift, too, as Megan, Mia, and Elaine float off to the prom. Some food for thought, dished out with a heavy hand. (Fiction. 12-15) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0380731010
- ISBN 13 9780380731015
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages182
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