Pregnancy and Childbirth in Teen Fiction

Life as it Comes by Anne-Laure Bondoux

Mado is surprised to learn that her older sister has been hiding her pregnancy for months.

Slam by Nick Hornby

Sam's life changes drastically when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.

A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd

Shell's secret pregnancy and birth ends in a tragedy that becomes a local controversy.

The Braid by Helen Frost

Sarah stays behind in Scotland when her family emigrates to America, but soon she finds hereslf alone and pregnant.

Bowery Girl by Kim Taylor

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

Sheree writets to her mother and her young son about how she ended up pregnant at seventeen.

Fact of Life #31 by Denise Vega

Kat works for her mother--a midwife--and even gets to assist at a birth.