Planet Pregnancy by Linda Oatman High has been a great book. I actually finished really early. I couldn't put it down. It is a story that many girls now a days can relate to. Before teenage pregnancies were not popular around the world now it is not such and uncommon thing. I don't think I could do what Sahara did. She kept her pregnancy a secret from everybody for a very long time. I would've needed to talk to someone about it.
Sahara is a normal high school girl. She is full of life. One day she finds out that she is pregnant and her world turns upside down. She doesn't know what to do. She doesn't know who to tell. The first few months of her pregnancy is a complete blur to her. In school she is no longer that happy girl she used to be. At home she tries not to be noticed. Since the boy she was with is not someone she could rely on she has to find a way to tell her mother. Sahara changes a lot in the book. You see her mature. You see her get shaped into what a mom should be. She has to make a big decision, and looking back at the ending, I think she made the right choice.
I think this book is for teenagers. It shows how a regular girl dealt with her problem. Maybe other teenage girls can learn form her. I think this is for teenage girls because this a story of a teenage pregnancy written in a teenage point of view.
The main character, Sahara, is who I found the most interesting. She developed and changed her views throughout the book, witch is what made her inspiring to me. She made a bad choice in the book, and she realized that, but there few options for her to choose from. In the beginning of the book, Sahara was "Miss social butterfly," and after she found out that she was pregnant, her world turned upside down. She did not want to go out in public, she was confused, she was scared, she was scared. when she first found out that she was pregnant she was thinking that getting rid of the baby was the only way out. Thank god that she did not end up doing that. I think that because of the baby she grew up as a person. She was no longer the teenage girl she was before she got pregnant.
After a few months of her pregnancy she realizes that she cannot hide the pregnancy much longer. She finally decides to tell her mom that she is pregnant. Although she shows more maturity with that, she does not tell her the complete truth and that shows that she still has some growing up to do. We see all the things she thinks about during her pregnancy. One of the main questions she asks herself is what will people think. She knew that there were other teenage moms out there but she never thought that she would be one of them. Her sort of perfect life turned into hell. I think sahara shows that she is becoming independent throughout the book. She spends a lto more time by herself. She thinks really deeply about what she want in her life. she realizes that she doesn't have many people to depend on.She has her best friend Emma and her mother, but nobody else. She is going to be a single mom just like her own mother was for a while. The soon to be father, sahara's ex-boyfriend, does not believe he is the father. sahara doesn't even want to be with him. She just tried to let him know he was the father, if he didn't belive her there was nothing she could do anymore.I think that when she realizes that her ex-boyfriend is not going to support her, it reminds her a lot of her mom and dad's relationship and how it fell apart.
The author may have had many reasons to write this book but I think that her main reason was to tell the story of a teenage pregnancy. A lot of teenage pregnancies are not planned and unwanted. In Sahara's case it starts out as many other teenage pregnancies, unwanted. This story ends on a good note. This shows that teenage pregnancies aren't always bad. Although most teenage girls don't want to get pregnant, there are those unusual few that really want to get pregnant. In the beginning of the book Sahara doesn't want to have a baby and her only thought was to get rid of it. You see a real change in her torwards the end of the book.
I just want to build a canopy over my baby and keep it from danger
This shows how Sahara is maturing. It shows that she is ready to be a mom. She is thinking like a mom.When it comes to the final day when she actually has the baby she realizes that her baby, Grace, will be the love of her life.
I'm crying and laughing at the same time....I'm in total love
Her new baby is going to definately be one of the greatest things that will ever come into her life. I wonder if all new moms feel this way.
I would have to say the one weakness about the book was that it had a bad ending. It said something about her Sahara's mom waiting at the curb when Sahara walked out of the hospital. I wish the book told a little more about the life of Sahara after the birth of Grace. In my opinion, a lot of books have this same problem. They leave the reader wanting to know more. Sometimes they don't write a sequel or anything, they just leave the readers wondering and imagining ther own endings. I know somwhere torwards the end of the book Sahara says
...and I know everything will be fine...
That makes me imagine a lot of endings. Everything could be fine for now but I would've really liked to know a little bit more. The ending left me with a lot of questions. Does she end up with her ex-boyfriend Dustin? Does her mom treaat her the same? What does Emma reply to Sahara's txt message? Does Sahara tell her dad about his new grandaughter? These questions were left unanswered so I think of the book as incomplete.
Other than the ending, the rest of the book was great. As I said before, I couldn't put it down. The book was easy to read and understand. I would recommend this book to all teenage girls. These kinds of things can happen to anyone so why not see what to expect. This book shows what a general teenager does when she finds out she is pregnant at 16. There are a lot more things that make Planet Pregnancy a good book. Check it out.
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