Growing Up Fast

by Joanna Lipper

Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

7.31.2 L5 g

Collection

Publication

Picador (2004), Edition: Reprint, 432 pages

Description

"Tells the life stories of ... six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were all enrolled in the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ... They shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed postindustrial landscape of Pittsfield."--Jacket.

User reviews

LibraryThing member janey47
This was an interesting set of new information to add to the stuff I've been reading on the working poor, but I just feel like the group studied was too small to give me a sense of what's really out there. I actually kept thinking of the book All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, by
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Nell Bernstein, because the issues of teen pregnancy plus a ton of other issues are dealt with in there really well. If you have to choose, choose the latter.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

432 p.; 5.5 inches

ISBN

0312422237 / 9780312422233

Call number

7.31.2 L5 g
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