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High, Linda Oatman

Planet Pregnancy

197 pp. | Front | October, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59078-584-3 $16.95
(4) YA Spanning the time from Sahara's use of a home pregnancy test to the day she leaves the hospital with her newborn, this free-verse novel channels the denial, fear, and anxiety of an unplanned teenage pregnancy. The stuttering slam-style poetry emulates the fragmented thinking of the sixteen-year-old protagonist but doesn't rise above the pedestrian: "It bites, / when everything / depends / on one stupid / blue line."
Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac

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