Detour+for+Emmy

Title: //Detour for Emmy // Author: Reynolds, Marilyn Description: This is the story of a fifteen year old. She is a good student. In ninth grade, she falls in love, and then finds herself pregnant. This is her story of the struggles of teen pregnancy. Genre: Realistic fiction Questionable situation: Teen pregnancy, sex Opinions: Challenged in Grandbury, TX middle school due to the explicit sexual content. It has been cited by the ALA. ([]) “The hardship, tedium, and responsibility of parenting and the pain of deferred dreams provide a strong, if sometimes didactic, message to sexually active YAs.” From School Library Journal retrieved from []) Audience: ages 12 and up