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"The ghost of a 19th century Irish immigrant to Minnesota watches over three contemporary American teenagers who live on the plot of land she did as they try to terminate an unwanted pregnancy"-- Provided by publisher. In a small Midwestern town, over a century ago, Jane Murphy lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland that three teenage girls-- sisters and cousins-- now call home. Jane, an Irish immigrant, was determined to defy her arranged...

"Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies. In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final...

Seventeen-year-old Truth uses slam poetry to address her personal struggles with college, relationships, and an unexpected pregnancy, but she never intended for a video of her poem to go viral. Seventeen-year-old poet Truth Bangura begins senior year unsure of life after graduation, but when she learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she is sure about--an abortion. When Truth performs a poem about her decision and her emotionally...