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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 18, 2011
Things could not get much worse for Elly. She is seven months pregnant. After telling her to have the baby, her religious parents desert her to work in an AIDS orphanage in Kenya. Now she is married to her loser boyfriend, Lam (short for Lamont), and spending the summer living and working at Camp Weight Away, his family's camp for overweight ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onAugust 18, 2011 | Booksmack!
Things could not get much worse for Elly. She is seven months pregnant. After telling her to have the baby, her religious parents desert her to work in an AIDS orphanage in Kenya. Now she is married to her loser boyfriend, Lam (short for Lamont), and spending the summer living and working at Camp Weight Away, his family's camp for overweight ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Starred Review on September 1, 2011
Gr 9 Up—Sixteen years old and seven months pregnant, Eleanor can't rely on anyone but herself. Hastily married to her irresponsible boyfriend and feeling abandoned by parents who chose missionary work in Kenya over helping her, she's faced with a summer working at a camp for overweight youth owned by her unsympathetic in-laws, and everyone has his or her own idea about what she should do with the baby. Nolan presents a sensitive look at the difficulties of teen pregn...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Pregnant and married at sixteen, Elly goes to work at a summer camp for overweight kids. Her boozing and cheating ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
