Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard

Sam has all the normal teen obligations and worries, but now he also is a single father. Max's mother couldn't deal with being a teenage mother, but Sam wouldn't let her put the baby up for adoption. After a while Sam feels like he is slipping, he can't possibly handle all of what people expect him to do!

Although this seems like it should be an interesting twist on teen pregnancy novels, it definitely fell short. The characters were poorly fleshed out and extremely contrived (I was rolling my eyes at a good bit of the backstory.) The plot... well, it never actually turned up, so we basically just watch Sam and a couple teen single mothers take care of their kids and whine for all 150 pages.

I was sorely tempted to bash my head on the table while trying to finish this book. Save yourself the pain and don't try.

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Emme