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Detour for Emmy

by Marilyn Reynolds

A teenager weighs her future after an unexpected pregnancy

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A teenager weighs her future after an unexpected pregnancy

Emmy’s school life brings together academic achievement, soccer, and choir, while her family circumstances include an alcoholic mother and an absent father. When a pregnancy changes her relationship with Art, the people around her press competing views: her mother wants her to have an abortion, her guidance counselor warns that her life will be ruined, and a friend offers support. The central question is Emmy’s own—how she understands her dreams alongside the possibility of becoming a single mother. The premise places adolescent pregnancy, family strain, and personal choice at the heart of the story.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fiction about adolescent pregnancy and its personal consequences.
  • Readers seeking a story centered on family challenges and a young person weighing a life-changing decision.

Themes

Adolescent pregnancyPersonal choiceFamily challengesFriendship and supportDreams and parenthood

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Book overview

In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that she's pregnant. Then he wants nothing to do with her. Her mother is furious and wants her to have an abortion. Her guidance counselor claims that Emmy's life will be ruined, and only one of her friends tries to stand by her. But what does Emmy want, and what about her dreams, if she chooses a new life as a single mother?

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