Pregnancy and Childbirth in Teen Fiction
Love Me Tender by Audrey Couloumbis
- Pub Date: 2008
- Middle school interest
- See also: Extended Family
- Elvira goes with her pregnant mom and her sister to meet the grandmother she's never known.
Life as it Comes by Anne-Laure Bondoux
- Pub Date: 2007
- Middle and high school interest
- Mado is surprised to learn that her older sister has been hiding her pregnancy for months.
The Braid by Helen Frost
- Pub Date: 2006
- Middle and high school interest
- See also: Historical, Multiple Narrators
- Sarah stays behind in Scotland when her family emigrates to America, but soon she finds herself alone and pregnant.
Slam by Nick Hornby
- Pub Date: 2007
- High school interest
- See also: Connecting with Books
- Sam's life changes drastically when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
- Pub Date: 2007
- High school interest
- See also: Historical
- Shell's secret pregnancy and birth ends in a tragedy that becomes a local controversy.
Bowery Girl by Kim Taylor
- Pub Date: 2006
- High school interest
- See also: Historical
- Annabelle is a prostitute in 1880's New York, but when she finds herself pregnant, she tries to better her situation.
Baby Girl by Lenora Adams
- Pub Date: 2007
- High school interest
- Sheree writes to her mother and her young son about how she ended up pregnant at seventeen.
Fact of Life #31 by Denise Vega
- Pub Date: 2008
- High school interest
- See also: Mother-Daughter Relationship
- Kat works for her mother--a midwife--and even gets to assist at a birth.
Keep Sweet by Michele Greene
- Pub Date: 2011
- High school interest
- See also: Religion, Marriage
- Alva lives in a polygamous community where she is present at a difficult birth.
The Best and Hardest Thing by Pat Brisson
- Pub Date: 2010
- High school interest
- A "good girl" makes a mistake that gets her pregnant.
The Implosion of Aggie Winchester by Lara Zielin
- Pub Date: August 2011
- High school interest
- See also: Mother-Daughter Relationship
- There is a controversy in a small-town high school when a pregnant teen is elected prom queen.
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Pregnant Pause by Han Nolan
- Pub Date: 2011
- High school interest
- See also: Making Decisions
- I wrote about it: What Would You Do?
- A pregnant teen struggles with what her parents tell her to do versus what she wants to do.
Beauty of Darkness by Mary Pearson
- Pub Date: 2016
- High school interest
- Sequel to Heart of Betrayal
- Lia's BFF Pauline gives birth in this epic fantasy novel.
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