Screwed by Laurie Plissner, Previewed Copy

Thanks to one of my new friends, I recently learned about NetGalley, a website where you can read new or soon-to-be-released books from a wide variety of interests. The first book that I read from NetGally was Screwed by Laurie Plissner, due for release on Amazon in just a few days.

The synopsis from Amazon:
Grace was the girl who always did everything right, until the night she fell for a boy's sleazy line and became pregnant. Nick couldn't care less about pretty math-geek Grace or the baby he fathered. He's had a dozen girls like her, and he'll have a dozen more. When Grace confesses to her super-religious, strait-laced parents, they deliver a shocker: They've scheduled an abortion. All they want is to pretend this never happened. When Grace balks, they literally throw her out in the street. A rich, elderly neighbor takes her in, and, with the help of the friendship she needs in Charlie, the old woman's great-nephew, she must make the toughest choice of her young life. The people she believed in were only playing a role, while others, in an unlikely way, are true heroes. Grace can never have the life she planned, but she has one chance to be the person she will have to live with for the rest of her life. Her choice will cost her, big time, either way--and no one can make it except her.

My opinions...
Sadly, I think this story is more realistic than we'd ever like to admit to ourselves. The "good girl" ends up in a "bad situation," and she is made to choose between her family and her own morals. The sad part, to me, is that the girls who go through this in real life don't usually end up with rich, kind neighbors who take them in. I think there is a lot of different takeaways in this book, from the consequences of hasty decisions to what family is really all about. I definitely enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to my high school students. There is some profanity, but surprisingly, no extremely sexual content.