Jumping Off Swings
Candlewick Press · Hardcover · August 11, 2009
One pregnancy.
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- Who it’s for
- Four alternating perspectives make the emotional aftershocks of an unintended pregnancy feel intimate and far-reaching.
- Genres
- Teen Pregnancy, Dating & Sex for Teens, Friendship for Teens
- Published
- Candlewick Press, August 11, 2009
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One pregnancy. Four friends. It all adds up to a profound time of change in this poignant, sensitively written YA novel. Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his van, Ellie follows. But their "one-time thing" is far from perfect: Ellie gets pregnant.
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Josh reacts with shame and heartbreak, while their confidantes, Caleb and Corinne, deal with their own complex swirl of emotions. No matter what Ellie chooses, all four teenagers will be forced to grow up a little faster as a result. Told alternately from each character’s point of view, this deeply insightful novel explores the aftershocks of the biggest decision of one fragile girl’s life — and the realities of leaving innocence behind.
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Four alternating perspectives make the emotional aftershocks of an unintended pregnancy feel intimate and far-reaching.
Come here for
- Four teenagers caught in one life-changing aftermath
- A close look at intimacy, friendship, and growing up
Expect
- A poignant, sensitively written YA novel
- Complicated feelings, without an easy way around them
Where it sits
| Teen Pregnancy | 96% |
|---|---|
| Friendship for Teens | 48% |
| Dating & Sex for Teens | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Growing Up
- Stories About Pregnancy
- Dating & Sex for Teens
- Authors
- Jo Knowles
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- August 11, 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Growing Up