Belly Up
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
There’s a first time for everything.
First time playing quarters.
First time spinning the bottle.
First totally hot consensual truck hookup with a superhot boy whose digits I forgot to get.
First time getting pregnant.
Surprised you with that one, didn’t I?
Surprised me, too. I’d planned to spend senior year with my bestie-slash-wifey, Devi Abrams, graduating at the top of my class and getting into an Ivy League college. Instead, Mom and I are moving in with my battle-ax of a grandmother and I’m about to start a new school and a whole new life.
Know what’s more fun than being the new girl for your senior year? Being the pregnant new girl. It isn’t awesome. There is one upside, though—a boy named Leaf Leon. He’s cute, an amazing cook and he’s flirting me up, hard-core. Too bad I’m knocked up with a stranger’s baby. I should probably mention that to him at some point.
But how?
It seems I’ve got a lot more firsts to go.
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Seventeen-year-old Serendipity (Sara) hooks up with a cute stranger at a party, partly to spite her cheating ex-boyfriend, and becomes pregnant. When she decides to keep the baby, her plans to attend an Ivy League college turn "to ash," but fortunately she has a strong support group in her sarcastic, offbeat mom and her "quasi-dysfunctional," shoe-hurling Swedish grandmother, both of whom experienced unplanned pregnancies in their youths; her feisty best friend, Devi; and her devoted new boyfriend, Leaf, whose culinary skills rival Sara's grandmother's. Reminiscent of the film Juno in spirit and humor, this optimistic novel gives a detailed summary of Sara's bodily changes as well as her emotional ups and downs, which range from the joy she feels upon hearing her baby's heartbeat, to anger when news of her pregnancy is leaked at school, to the traumatic ordeal of finding and confronting the baby's father. Although the happily-ever-after ending is somewhat romanticized, snappy dialogue and memorable characters by Darrow (Dead Little Mean Girl) make for an endearing, laugh-out-loud read. Ages 12 up.
