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Girls Like Us - by Randi Pink (Paperback)
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Highlights
- In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story-as timely as ever-about a woman's right to choose her future.
- 320 Pages
- Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women
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About the Book
In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.Book Synopsis
In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story-as timely as ever-about a woman's right to choose her future.
Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies. In 1972 rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final narrator, Susan, who is white and the daughter of an anti-choice senator.Review Quotes
"With gut-wrenching, realistic scenes that illustrate their youth and innocence to scenes that show their forced growth into motherhood, readers' hearts will break for these teens who don't know what to expect when their life throws them the unexpected. An excellent fictionalized look at the reality of teen pregnancy with a historical lens. A must for all teen collections.--School Library Journal, STARRED review
"Pink offers a timely, sobering account of the reality women faced before abortion was made legal. --Publishers Weekly
"[Pink's] style is absorbing, at times balancing Southern Gothic elements ... with trenchant pith. Throughout, though, the theme is one of young women struggling to help one another in a place and time that offers them few choices... Readers will be drawn by the story and stay for the message."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
About the Author
Randi Pink is the author of Girls Like Us and Into White. She lives with her family and two rescue dogs in Birmingham, AL, where she works for a branch of National Public Radio.Additional product information and recommendations
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