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Dear diary book series4/7/2023 ![]() Your stories will give both teens and adults courage to confront their problems.Īnrenee Englander is interested in women's health issues, particularly as to how they affect youth. Thanks Anrenee Englander.and the girls who agreed to do the interviews. A moving and thoughtful collection of interviews. This is a revised edition of a book first published in 1997, containing an updated resources section for both Canada and the USA, which includes names and contact information for helpful organizations, and titles of fiction and non-fiction books that deal with teen pregnancy. The book is meant to provide support and to initiate conversations, not to endorse any specific course of action. The author acknowledges that each story is told from only one perspective, and that the interviewees volunteered to share their stories, so not all scenarios and outcomes are necessarily represented. The author hopes that reading the stories will help other girls in similar situations realize that they are not alone, show them how others have handled the experience, and be of some help as they make the choice of abortion, adoption or parenting. Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant is a compilation of ten interviews by Anrenee Englander after she spoke with forty young women who were faced with unplanned pregnancies and difficult choices. ![]() Your stories will give both teens and adults courage to confront their problems. ![]() An important and relevant item for collections in public and school libraries. Chosen by The New York Public Library's "Books for the Teen Age" list and hailed by The Globe and Mail for its ".frank, revealing and brave conversations," this is a must-read book for young women looking for reassurance that they are not alone.Ī moving and thoughtful collection of interviews. Presenting different points of view, Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant is a non-judgmental source of information for all teens that provides support and guidance for those who find themselves in this situation. First published to critical acclaim in 1997, this new edition contains the original interviews as well as d material including a resources section. 10 of Preface.īook Synopsis In poignant and insightful interviews, Anrénee Englander presents the voices of ten pregnant teens as they discuss their experiences and choices around motherhood, adoption and abortion. Transitioning into adulthood is painful for CeeCee as her anger, doubts, and despair overwhelm her at times, but in the midst of her unwilling journey from child to woman she finds the courage to face her life as well as herself with honesty and a determination to deal with the obstacles that have been thrown in her path.ĭear Diary.is the second book of the Dear the Book Edition statement from p. ![]() Born two weeks after her paternal grandmother's death, CeeCee is the spitting image of her, and CeeCee's mother, Allison, devastated by the loss of her mother-in-law who was also her best friend, can't imagine any other name.ĬeeCee fervently wishes her mother had possessed a bit more imagination.Įlsee Caitrin Wilson.a cow name in CeeCee's mind as well as the minds of her classmates.Īs if that isn't enough for a child to handle, CeeCee and her family have to move the summer before she's to start high school, her father develops a disease that's slowly destroying his body as well as her universe, her older brother Mark becomes infatuated with the wicked witch of the southwest, the man she falls in love with loves another, and to top it all off, she can't seem to stop making lists.ĭoes God care? How can a loving God allow those things to happen? Is CeeCee losing her faith? Had she truly ever possessed any? Or is she simply a product of her parents’ blind belief? What if everything she's been taught up until then has simply been a lie? What if God doesn't exist and it's all a hoax?
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