The Dear One by Jacqueline WoodsonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was really good considering that I don’t really read book like this. I only read books like this for school. This book was about: a twelve yea old girl name Afeni and a fifteen year old girl named Rebecca. Rebecca is pregnant and poor. Afeni is wealthy, spoiled, and doesn’t care to have a pregnant girl living in her house even if the girl is the daughter of her mother’s best friend from college. In the beginning of the book Afeni and Rebecca hated each other and must figure out how to live under the same roof with each other and all of their opposing ideas. Afeni couldn’t understand how a girl so young could get herself into so much trouble. Afeni didn’t want not be under the same roof with her. When Rebecca arrives: she is mean, bossy, and uneducated. But it’s hard not to be curious about a girl so close to her in age who seems so different. This was the second book Jacqueline Woodson wrote. She said “I wanted to write about teenage pregnancy. At the time I was working with runaway and homeless young people—many of whom were pregnant. I wanted to write a novel that spoke to them.”
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