Believe in Me: A Teen Mom's Story
Dickerman-Nelson takes the reader along with her 16-year-old self on the roller coaster of joy, confusion, pain, rejection and hope she rode during her senior year of high school. Although the book is a story about teen pregnancy, it touches on many themes and situations to which a wide audience can relate, including adoption, adolescence, young love and the conflict between maturing teens and their parents, and within the teens themselves. --Lowell Sun, Lowell, MABelieve in Meis a beautifully written story about a girl raised in the Catholic Church and taught to believe that those with authority would always know better than her; but she becomes a girl who learns faith and acts on it. Judith's story is one of incredible courage against stiff odds; the story could engender nuanced discussion about teen sexuality, contraception, and parenting -- which would be a welcome relief from the current polemic about women's heath -- as if men didn't contribute to conception. --Brattleboro Reformer, Brattleboro, VT