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Girls Like Us Spiral-Bound | 2021-01-19

Randi Pink

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Set in the summer of 1972, this moving YA historical novel is narrated by teen girls from different backgrounds with one thing in common: each girl is dealing with pregnancy.

Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies.

In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final narrator, Susan, who is white and the daughter of an anti-choice senator.

Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story - as timely as ever - about a woman's right to choose her future.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1250620872
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
Girls Like Us:

A School Library Journal BEST BOOK OF 2019

"With gut-wrenching, realistic scenes that illustrate their youth and innocence to scenes that show their forced growth into motherhood, readers' hearts will break for these teens who don't know what to expect when their life throws them the unexpected. An excellent fictionalized look at the reality of teen pregnancy with a historical lens. A must for all teen collections. --School Library Journal, starred review

"Pink is careful to never allow the story itself to fall into agenda-pushing. Instead, she allows Toya to explore the gray areas teens negotiate as their identities shift and as their belief systems are challenged. This debut ought to inspire readers to have conversations among themselves about family, empathy, community, and respect for others." --Booklist, starred review

"[Pink's] style is absorbing, at times balancing Southern Gothic elements. . . with trenchant pith. Throughout, though, the theme is one of young women struggling to help one another in a place and time that offers them few choices. . .Readers will be drawn by the story and stay for the message." --The Bulletin

"Pink weaves a heart-wrenching narrative through multiple perspectives that examines life before Roe v. Wade. The author brings to light the reality about the lack of choices that women, especially young, unwed women, had in regard to their futures. A timely, honest story about women's right to choose." --Kirkus Reviews

"Pink isn't afraid of being provocative . . . and the book dives into thorny issues of identity, self-image, and the internal effects of racism in a strikingly frank way." --Publishers Weekly

Randi Pink is the author of Into White, also published by Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan. She lives with her family and two rescue dogs in Birmingham, Alabama, where she works for a branch of National Public Radio. iamrandipink.com