Girls Like US
Square Fish · Paperback · January 19, 2021
In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story–as timely as ever–about a woman’s right to choose her future.
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- Who it’s for
- Four teenage lives meet in a story about unplanned pregnancy and the right to choose.
- Genres
- Teen Pregnancy, 20th-Century US YA, YA Stories About Girls & Women
- Published
- Square Fish, January 19, 2021
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In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story–as timely as ever–about a woman’s right to choose her future. Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they’re dealing with unplanned pregnancies. In 1972 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.
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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.
Choices and Voices
Four teenage lives meet in a story about unplanned pregnancy and the right to choose.
Come here for
- Four teenage perspectives on unplanned pregnancy and choice
- A story connecting rural Georgia and Chicago
Expect
- An interwoven narrative set in 1972
- Perspectives shaped by sharply different family beliefs
Where it sits
| Teen Pregnancy | 79% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century US YA | 60% |
| YA Stories About Girls & Women | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- African American YA
- Teen Pregnancy
- Authors
- Randi Pink
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- January 19, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Girls & Women