![]() ![]() The plot of this book is sort of… disconnected. Because if she doesn’t, no one else will. Because LaVaughn gives Jolly and her two babies more love and understanding than should be possibly for a fourteen-year-old. It didn’t matter that Jolly didn’t have a husband–or a mom and dad. It didn’t matter that LaVaughn was fourteen-years-old –only three years younger than Jolly. Someone she could trust with two kids while she worked the evening shift. Something she could do after school to help earn money for college. So when I saw this little beauty on the online catalog, from the point of view of the babysitter rather than one of the parents, I decided to give it a go. Though I don’t necessarily advocate it, I do find stories of teen pregnancy and parenthood fascinating. It’s technically a contemporary I guess, though the copyright date says 1993, and what you call a twenty-two-year-old realistic fiction, I’m not entirely certain. Alexa, here! So this week’s world comes from an older book I picked up at my library. ![]()
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