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Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.
Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Bobby finds outs his girlfriend is pregnant and learns to balance being a teenager and a new parent.
Book talk:
What’s the right thing?
This is what 16-year-old Bobby asks himself in The First Part Last after he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. Told in Bobby’s voice using poetic language, the chapters alternate between him asking this question in the past and him living with his decisions in the present. But don’t get the idea that the author glosses over the subject. Instead, Angela Johnson faces the topic head on, capturing Bobby’s emotional ups and downs as he balances his love for his daughter with his own insecurities with his situation. “This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on me. And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own mom’s room and have her do the whole thing.” So what does Bobby do?
What’s the right thing?
Awards:
- ALA Michael L. Printz Award,
- Abraham Lincoln Book Award Master List (IL),
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- Alabama Author's Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice
- CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
- Charlotte Award Suggested Reading List (NY)
- Coretta Scott King Award (ALA)
- Florida Teens Read Master List
- Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee (NJ)
- Gateway Readers Award Nominee (MO)
- Georgia Peach Book Award Master List
- Green Mountain Book Award Master List (VT)
- Gryphon Award for Children's Literature
- Iowa Teen Award Master List
- IRA Young Adults' Choices
- Rosie Award Nominee (IN)
- Sequoyah Young Adult Master List (OK)
- South Carolina Book Award Nominee
- Volunteer State Book Award Master List (TN)
- YARP Award Master List (SD)
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